A cyber terrorism attack on the UK infrastructure will happen in the next five years, according to Rob Martin, the Digital Security Services Manager at BP, speaking at the opening of Symantec’s Security Operations Centre on 21 June.“I believe cyber terrorism has been over-hyped over the past couple of years,” he said. “But the terrorists will look for gaps in the corporate network to exploit and we need to develop the technology to close these holes and prevent an atrocity.” Martin admitted that the energy industry is an attractive target to the extremists, because of the potential to cause harm to and disrupt the lives of millions of people.
BP, working collaboratively with government bodies, will develop technology to protect the organisation and the national infrastructure against a cyber terrorism attack over the next few years, said Rob Martin.
Much best practice on protecting national infrastructure against this type of attack can be found on the website of MI5’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, which is dedicated to protecting UK CNI (Critical National Infrastructure) against both electronic and physical attack:
http://www.cpni.gov.uk/
Further detailed information on how to secure SCADA can be obtained by emailing David.
IT-based attacks against CNI SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems) will be one of the subjects in ARC Training’s new Protecting Critical National Infrastructure Course, currently under development and due for “roll out” in 2008.
IT-based attacks against CNI SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems) will be one of the subjects in ARC Training’s new Protecting Critical National Infrastructure Course, currently under development and due for “roll out” in 2008.
