Oil & Energy

With cyber-attacks in your industry increasing, do you have a strategy in place for protecting your assets, infrastructure and customers?

Overview

Why Cybersecurity is Important for the Oil & Energy Industry

Following the introduction of automated supply chains in energy facilities, the risks and severity of cyberattacks have increased drastically. Critical systems controlling energy production systems are a prime target for hackers constantly looking for a weak entry point into one of your public-facing systems to affect the productivity of your facilities. Due to the constant technological evolution of these automated processes, vulnerabilities are generally unknown and left aside by development teams, focusing mainly on the optimization of technological innovations. This is why assessing the security of the supply chain has become essential to mitigate the risks.

Challanges

Common cybersecurity challenges faced by the Oil & Energy Industry:
  1. Maintaining continuity of essential services and operations
  2. Securing the production chain from disruptive attacks.
  3. Building cyber resilience into antiquated network infrastructure
  4. Managing risks posed by Internet of Things devices
  5. Detecting and responding to security breaches
  6. Complying with the regulatory requirements and guidelines- NCIIPC Guidelines for Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) 2.0, ISO/IEC 62443 (ISA 99), ISO 27001:2013, and GDPR
  7. Identifying and fixing ICS / SCADA system vulnerabilities.
  8. Maintaining the continuity of production following a cyber attack.

Key Questions to Assess Your Cybersecurity

  1. Are suitable controls in place to detect and respond to breaches?
  2. What systems and controls are in place to mitigate insider threats?
  3. How often are Industrial Control Systems tested for vulnerabilities?
  4. How are security risks in the supply chain managed?
  5. Do you have an incident response procedure?
  6. Are systems backed up to avoid data loss in the event of ransomware?

How Vtangent can help?

With years of experience working with organizations across the Oil & Energy sector, our specialists better understand the security challenges your organization faces and how to address them. Vtangent offers following services to meet your cybersecurity needs and help you achieving the regulatory compliance in line with the following standards and guidelines.

  • NCIIPC – Guidelines for Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) 2.0
  • NIST SP 800-82 Revision 2
  • ISO/IEC 62443 (ISA 99)
  • ISO 27001:2013

ICS Cybersecurity Assessment

Analyzes cybersecurity controls in your ICS network and environment. Through a combination of visual inspections, interviews with key personnel, and verification of configuration settings for all ICS components.

IT/OT Penetration Testing

To identify all potential vulnerabilities in an IT/OT environment, our experts conduct internal penetration testing on an agreed set of systems and components.

ICS Cybersecurity Roadmap

Analyze your IT infrastructure, exposing weaknesses & high-risk practices. Create a board-level InfoSec strategy & plan. Developing a roadmap to improve the cybersecurity posture.​

Security Hardening

Security Hardening reduces security holes in your security architecture and setup. This is achieved by hardening credentials, uninstalling unwanted applications or bloatware and modifying system configuration.

Compliance

Through strong documentation and improved staff awareness, Vtangent will help ensure your organization can meet its many strict compliance requirements –ISO 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 62443 (ISA 99), NCIIPC, etc.

Awareness Training

Deliver security awareness training for key business stakeholders such as employees.

Policies & Procedures

Developing policies and procedures to provide a roadmap for day-to-day operations. It ensures compliance with laws and regulations, give guidance for decision-making, and streamline internal processes.

What Does SCADA & ICS Security Testing Involve?

Industrial control systems can be tested with many of the same techniques as other types of system, but there are important differences too:
  • Tools that are used for testing Windows-based servers and workstations are often unsuitable for testing embedded control devices such as PLCs.
  • Devices from different manufacturers – or even the same manufacturer – are often incompatible with each other. There are also a number of incompatible control network protocols in widespread use.
  • If testing has side effects then these are potentially much more serious than on a typical corporate network, especially in the case of a live production environment.
  • To accommodate these differences, ICS /SCADA tests require more planning and a more tailored approach than other types of security testing.

Vtangent can deliver in-depth penetration testing and security assessments for industrial control systems, including appropriately cautious testing of live production environments if required.

Why Vtangent ?

Reasons you can rely on us.

High-quality Service

Outcome Focused

Actionable & Detailed Reports

Product Agnostic

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Expertise

Vtangent employs highly-certified and experienced cybersecurity professionals with deep expertise in a broad range of security domains. Our security qualifications: 

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