ABS Consulting Publishes Industry Insight on OT Cyber Resilience for Global Energy Facilities

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ABS Consulting Publishes Industry Insight on OT Cyber Resilience for Global Energy Facilities

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Paper delivers practical guidance for oil, gas and chemical facilities facing rising cybersecurity threats

(Houston, TX) - ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting), a global leader in risk management and safety solutions, has published a new paper, highlighting how a risk-based approach to operational technology (OT) cybersecurity can help oil, gas and chemical facilities strengthen cyber resilience, protect business continuity and support safer, more reliable operations.

OT Cyber Resilience and Business Continuity for Global Energy Facilities - A Cybersecurity and Risk Management Approach examines the growing cyber risks facing critical infrastructure in the energy sector and outlines why OT cybersecurity must be treated as an operational and engineering priority, not simply an IT issue. The paper explores the current state of cybersecurity across oil, gas and chemical environments and provides practical insight into how organizations can better assess, manage and reduce cyber risk across increasingly connected operations.

"Reliability, uptime and safety are paramount. Cybersecurity affects all these outcomes, making it an engineering problem," said Marco Ayala, Technical Director, Global Energy at ABS Consulting. "Energy facilities need a practical, standards-based approach to managing OT cyber risk-one that reflects the realities of plant operations and helps organizations build resilience over time."

The paper also underscores the importance of moving beyond checklists and one-time assessments to a more comprehensive lifecycle approach grounded in recognized frameworks such as ISA/IEC 62443. It highlights the need for on-site operational risk assessments, prioritized implementation planning and ongoing monitoring to help organizations strengthen their security posture while maintaining safe and reliable performance.

Cybersecurity is one aspect of the broader risk management services ABS Consulting provides to the global energy sector. ABS Consulting supports clients across upstream, midstream and downstream operations with OT/ICS cybersecurity risk assessments, cyber-informed engineering, incident response planning, security architecture design, vendor and supply chain risk assessments, and managed security advisory services.

OT Cyber Resilience and Business Continuity for Global Energy Facilities - A Cybersecurity and Risk Management Approach is available for request.

About ABS Consulting

ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting) is part of ABS Group of Companies, Inc. (https://www.abs-group.com), a global leader in safety and risk management for critical infrastructure worldwide and a subsidiary of ABS (https://www.eagle.org), one of the world's leading marine and offshore classification societies. With over 50 years of risk management and safety experience, ABS Consulting provides engineering, data science and management consulting services globally to help our clients manage their safety, security and operational risks. Headquartered in Spring, Texas, ABS Consulting operates with more than 700 professionals across the globe serving the marine and offshore, oil, gas and chemical, government, power and energy, and industrial sectors.