DIGITALISATION allows operators to cut costs and improve safety, but it also opens doors to new types of cybersecurity threats, writes Anamaria Deduleasa. For example, one source tells Upstream the equipment that enables remote monitoring and data gathering on installations such as floating production, storage and offloading vessels could be hacked. "For remote monitoring you need to install sensors, a multitude of them, to keep an eye on things. These sensors are easily hacked."
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