“The whole cyber-threat landscape mirrors what’s happening in the world,” Scali said. “What we see is cyberattacks typically are geopolitically driven. I can’t think of an industry that would actually have more geopolitical factors and drivers behind it than oil and gas. Given the complexity of geopolitics around natural resources and prices, as well as the significance of petrochemicals and petrochemical products to the normal operation of a society and national infrastructure, it very much puts oil and gas at a risk of the geopolitical winds changing and, thus, organizations in that industry being targeted.”
