A new Government Accountability Office report said the Interior Department has not done nearly enough to address the growing risk of cyberattacks to a network of more than 1,600 offshore facilities that produce a large portion of U.S. oil and gas.
“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.”
“The Department of the Interior — which is responsible for overseeing the infrastructure — has taken few steps to address cybersecurity risk,” says the GAO.
