美国监管机构在 11 月 17 日公开的一份报告中要求联邦海上石油和天然气基础设施监管机构为其监管的 1,600 多个设施制定网络安全策略。

政府问责办公室 (GAO) 的报告强调，海上设施越来越多地使用技术来远程监控和控制设备，这使得它们容易受到网络攻击，并面临环境损害和供应中断的风险。

这份于 10 月 26 日首次发布的报告称，“内政部安全与环境执法局 (BSEE) 早已认识到解决网络安全风险的必要性，但几乎没有采取任何行动”向提出要求的美国众议院某些议员提供。

报告称，一次成功的网络攻击可能会造成类似于 2010 年深水地平线灾难的损害。那场灾难不是网络攻击，但造成 11 名工人死亡，墨西哥湾沿岸的恢复成本达数十亿美元。报告提到中国、俄罗斯和伊朗可能构成重大威胁。

A U.S. watchdog in a report made public on Nov. 17 asked the federal regulator of offshore oil and gas infrastructure to come up with a cybersecurity strategy for the more than 1,600 facilities under its oversight.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlighted that offshore facilities increasingly use technology to remotely monitor and control equipment, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks and risking environmental harm and supply disruptions.

“The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has long recognized the need to address cybersecurity risks but has taken few actions to do so,” said the report, which was first published on Oct. 26 to certain members of the U.S. House of Representatives who requested it.

A successful cyberattack could wreak damage resembling the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the report said. That disaster was not a cyberattack but it killed 11 workers and cost billions of dollars for Gulf Coast restoration. The report mentioned China, Russia and Iran among actors that may pose significant threats.