Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats to Oil & Gas, and How to Protect Against Them

This Dragos WorldView summary highlights five primary OT threat scenarios to the oil & gas sector—OT remote access exploitation, disruptive/destructive ransomware, OT cloud compromise, supply chain compromise, and risks from joint ventures—and recommends improving asset visibility and adopting risk-based vulnerability management; the report also notes a 15% increase in total vulnerabilities and a 57% increase in ICS-specific vulnerabilities and references adversary activity such as VOLTZITE.