Investigation of Vulnerability of Oil and Gas Critical Infrastructures and Developing a tracking Algorithm to track malicious attacks on the streams

Abstract

This paper is a presentation of part of the preliminary achievements of an ongoing research work by the authors. The said research work is on tracking and locating cyber-attacks in general. This very paper seeks to propose a solution to the security challenges of oil and gas ICT infrastructures. Oil and gas industry is no doubt one of the most lucrative industries and high income generator for almost all oil and gas producing countries of the world. Since most of the operations of oil and gas industry is Information Technology driven, the accompanying cyber security challenges of the Information Technologies are mostly targeted at the upstream, the midstream and the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry. The methodology employed by the authors for this paper is a system design of a developed algorithm of data and server application tracking. The methodology and implementation trials of the ongoing research work so far, proved that the final result could be implemented to solve a wide range of cyber security problems especially, in the area of tracking and locating instantaneous malicious attacks on data files or software applications on the cyber space.