No matter what we call our Digital Oil Fields – intelligent, smart, integrated, or whatsoever, the ultimate fact is that those fields are data-driven oilfields that are interconnected in between and integrated with business networks and systems. Technological systems may be vulnerable within and may fail due to outside impacts including the cyber risks, however the technology advancement wheel would not stopover because of such emerging cyber threats. We do understand that there is no fully secure system on this earth, however we can still have an advanced level of robust cyber security controls that can be injected during the design of the digital oil field that makes it robust against the emerging cyber threats.
