A network of over 1,600 offshore facilities that produce a significant portion of U.S. domestic oil and gas faces a growing risk of cyberattacks, and the Interior Department has taken insufficient steps to address this risk, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
“Offshore oil and gas infrastructure faces significant and increasing cybersecurity risks in the form of threat actors, vulnerabilities, and potential impacts,” states the report , titled “Offshore Oil and Gas: Strategy Urgently Needed to Address Cybersecurity Risks to Infrastructure.”
Last year, leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of California and Alaska produced approximately 628 million barrels of oil and 824 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to data published by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue. This accounted for approximately 62% of the oil and 20% of the natural gas produced on federal property.
But this production […]
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