Modernization Expands Operational Risk

Without a holistic OT cybersecurity program, the operational benefits of modernization can be overshadowed by increased risk and complexity. A secure modernization strategy helps organizations unlock operational efficiencies while maintaining resilience across increasingly connected environments.

OT Cybersecurity for Oil & Gas Operations

Secure critical infrastructure, modernize safely and reduce operational cyber risk.

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Cybersecurity

Why OT Cybersecurity Matters in Oil & Gas

Oil and gas organizations are accelerating digital transformation to improve efficiency, connect remote assets and optimize production. As OT environments become more connected across upstream, midstream and downstream operations, cyber risk increasingly impact operational performance, safety and business continuity.

Organizations with comprehensive OT visibility can better understand asset health, configuration, backup, vulnerabilities and obsolescence. This context enables risk-based decisions that help:

Protect critical production assets
Reduce downtime and business disruption
Secure modernization initiatives
Optimize security resources and managed services
Align cybersecurity investments to business outcomes

Operational Challenges Facing Oil & Gas Organizations

Oil and gas companies often span production facilities, pipelines, terminals and remote operations, making it difficult to maintain visibility across critical assets. Over time, the addition of legacy systems, operational technologies and security tools can create fragmented environments that make it harder to identify vulnerabilities, prioritize risk and support compliance efforts.

Finding and retaining personnel with expertise across both industrial operations and cybersecurity disciplines is challenging. Geographically distributed assets with evolving cyber threats place additional demands on already limited resources.

As a result, internal teams are often required to balance production priorities, maintenance activities and cybersecurity responsibilities, making it difficult to continuously assess risk, respond to emerging threats and maintain security programs at scale.

Boards, regulators, insurers, and business stakeholders increasingly expect organizations to demonstrate cyber resilience, risk management and operational preparedness.

Regulatory expectations and board-level oversight continue to evolve, and organizations are under greater pressure to demonstrate that cybersecurity risks are understood, managed and aligned to business objectives.

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Top 10 Oil & Gas Producer Quickly Improves Security

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Purpose-Built OT Cybersecurity for Oil & Gas

A proper security program must provide people to execute the work, guided by established and pertinent practices, designed for OT and enabled by technology.

Deep understanding of the need for a cohesive combination of people, process and technology.

Built on decades of cybersecurity expertise, grounded in over 100 years of industrial automation and manufacturing.

Employ practical risk management practices and manage the complexity of OT environments within modern operations.

Incorporate system health, environmental factors, obsolescence and safety into the mix as OT requires.

SecureOT™ Platform: The Foundation For Cyber Resilience

SecureOT™ Platform provides a centralized view of industrial assets, vulnerabilities and cyber risk across your OT environment. By transforming data into actionable insights, oil and gas operations and security teams can prioritize remediation efforts, improve visibility and make more informed decisions.

Discover and inventory OT assets

Gain complete visibility into connected assets to reduce blind spots, establish a comprehensive view into the environment, and make more informed cybersecurity decisions.

Identify vulnerabilities and exposures

Uncover security gaps before they can be exploited, enabling proactive risk reduction and strengthening overall cyber resilience.

Monitor cyber risk across facilities

Maintain continuous awareness of evolving threats and risk levels across sites to support consistent security posture and operational reliability.

Prioritize remediation based on operational impact

Focus resources on the risks that matter most by understanding potential effects on safety, production, quality and business continuity.

Improve collaboration between OT, IT and security teams

Create a shared view of cyber risk that enables faster decision-making, more effective response efforts, and stronger cross-functional alignment.

Build a Stronger Cybersecurity Program with SecureOT

Building a stronger cybersecurity program means creating a sustainable foundation for managing cyber risk as operations evolve. SecureOT helps organizations improve resilience, support regulatory and stakeholder expectations, and maintain safe, reliable operations in an increasingly connected environment.

Oil & gas challenge	SecureOT Capability	Business outcome
Limited OT visibility	Asset inventory and lifecycle management	Contextual-level visibility into all assets
Aging infrastructure	Cybersecurity assessments & secure modernization services	Smarter risk management
Growing attack surface	Vulnerability management	Reduced exposure
Remote operations	Secure remote access	Safer connectivity
Threat detection gaps	Security monitoring & threat detection	Faster identification and remediation of threats
Production disruptions	Incident response services	Faster recovery and reduced downtime
Compliance pressures	Governance & risk services	Compliance readiness

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How Rockwell Automation Helps Oil & Gas Organizations Reduce Risk and Improve Resilience

Deep OT, ICS and industrial automation expertise to address the unique requirements of operational environments
Security strategies aligned to business and operational outcomes, helping connect cyber risk to production, reliability and safety objectives
OT-specific platform for contextual asset information to inform risk and prioritized remediation
End-to-end cybersecurity program spanning assessments, architecture, implementation, incident response and managed security operations
Maintain a stronger security posture through every phase of the operational lifecycle, from legacy environments and modernization programs to ongoing operations and maintenance
Reduce risk across geographically distributed operations with a unified approach to securing production, transportation, and processing environments
Consultative and managed services delivery models connect specialized OT cybersecurity expertise to strengthen security, accelerate response, and reduce pressure on internal resources
A comprehensive approach spanning people, processes and technology to strengthen long-term cyber resilience

This approach provides our customers with the ability to proactively track and assess contextual risk in near real time. Critical vulnerabilities must be measured and understood within the context of the asset and its impact to safe operations.

Organizations choose Rockwell Automation to move from reactive cybersecurity management to a more proactive, measurable approach. With a foundation of OT asset visibility and risk-based insights, teams can better prioritize improvements, plan for modernization, strengthen resilience, and track the impact of their cybersecurity investments.

Take the Next Step Toward Cyber Resilience

Building Long-Term Resilience in OT Cybersecurity

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Building Long-Term Resilience in OT Cybersecurity

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In this webinar, we’ll explore how manufacturers can take a programmatic approach to industrial cybersecurity to align people, processes, and technology to reduce risk over time while supporting operational reliability.

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Industrial OT Cybersecurity – Rockwell Automation SecureOT

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Industrial OT Cybersecurity – Rockwell Automation SecureOT

SecureOT combines OT‑specific designed software, expert services, and global scale to reduce risk, improve uptime, and simplify compliance for industrial operations.

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