DON'T OVERLOOK INVISIBLE THREATS

摘要

AMONG RECENT SECURITYbreach incidents in the oil and gas sector, one of the latest victims is Royal Dutch Shell which fell prey to a data breach related to a vulnerability in Software from Accellion Inc. In a Statement on 16 March, Shell stated that the data security incident involved Accellions File Transfer Appliance that it uses to transfer large data files securely. The data accessed, during a "limited window of time" according to Shell, included some personal data along with data from Shell companies and some of their stakeholders. In fact, the ongoing investigation has shown that an unauthorised party gained access to various files during a limited window of time, however, "there is no evidence of any impact to Shells core IT Systems as the file transfer Service is isolated from the rest of Shells digital infrastructure."