Don’t panic: How Gulf energy sector is training for cyber crisis

“Once it is disrupted, the whole ecosystem is affected,” he says, pointing to the importance of comprehensive incident response plans and cyber resilience programmes.

That is something the whole panel agreed on, including Khaled Al Teneiji, Cyber Security Head at ENOC, Talal Alasmi, CISO at Al Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Co. SAOG in Oman, and Anoop Paudval, Head of Information Security and GRC at Gulf News.

On the motives of these attacks Salman stated that this could be of financial and state interest to target the energy sector.

“Accuracy of an asset inventory decays unless continuously maintained,” Al Teneiji expressed pointing to the company’s need to move from box-ticking compliance to active, live monitoring.

Al Teneiji expressed that security teams need to sit down with process engineers before disaster strikes.