Cyber Espionage - Oil and Gas Companies at Risk
/EINPresswire.com/ Cyber espionage hit the headlines last week with reports of a series of hacker attacks—dubbed Night Dragon—aimed at major energy companies. The sophistication level of the attacks is significantly lower than that of the notorious Stuxnet worm that was found infecting control system networks last year, experts say. But the Night Dragon attacks, believed to be largely the work of Chinese hackers, have nonetheless been successful in achieving their apparent objective—that of intellectual property theft from global oil and gas, energy and petrochemical companies.
SMi Group's inaugural Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum event will bring together information security professionals from across the world to investigate the unique security challenges that the global oil and gas industry faces and methods of constructing effective security strategies.
The conference will include presentations from leading global oil and gas companies, hackers, consultants and other experts and will arm delegates with the knowledge to combat cyber threats global and national energy infrastructures.
The speaker line-up of industry experts includes Salem Elwi, Head of Central Engineering at Saudi Aramco. Salem Elwi will give a unique insight into Saudi Aramco's security strategies and how they counter cyber security threats. This session will also examine the future oil industry security challenges.
Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum will take place on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd November at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London.
Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum is sponsored by McAfee.
Full information and the conference programme can be found at www.smi-online.co.uk/2011cyber-security51.asp
*sourced from automationworld.comWritten by Wes Iversen, Managing Editor
SMi Group's inaugural Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum event will bring together information security professionals from across the world to investigate the unique security challenges that the global oil and gas industry faces and methods of constructing effective security strategies.
The conference will include presentations from leading global oil and gas companies, hackers, consultants and other experts and will arm delegates with the knowledge to combat cyber threats global and national energy infrastructures.
The speaker line-up of industry experts includes Salem Elwi, Head of Central Engineering at Saudi Aramco. Salem Elwi will give a unique insight into Saudi Aramco's security strategies and how they counter cyber security threats. This session will also examine the future oil industry security challenges.
Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum will take place on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd November at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London.
Oil and Gas Cyber Security Forum is sponsored by McAfee.
Full information and the conference programme can be found at www.smi-online.co.uk/2011cyber-security51.asp
*sourced from automationworld.comWritten by Wes Iversen, Managing Editor
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