From CBC:
Alberta’s energy department will be holding meetings in the coming weeks to discuss the threat of cyberattacks on oil-and-gas infrastructure — an issue that was flagged in a recent report by the province’s auditor general.
The report noted that the Alberta government does not require provincially regulated oil-and-gas operators to meet minimum IT security standards for the systems that control pumps, valves and other key oil-and-gas equipment. There are standards for utilities, but electrical operators aren’t required to comply with those until October of next year.
Although the threat of an attack on the oil-and-gas industry was found to be low, the auditor general report says there’s been no government assessment of what the impact would be if a cyberattack were to occur.
