Dragos: Lack of visibility into pipeline industry environment presents cybersecurity challenge

The cyber intelligence and security firm Dragos is citing challenges in assessing threats to the nation’s pipelines and a lack of confidence in companies’ ability to secure their industrial control systems.

“Cybersecurity visibility in oil and gas operational environments remains severely lacking allowing intrusions to dwell longer and cyber root cause analysis after an incident to remain elusive,” Dragos wrote in its August Threat Perspective on the industry, released Wednesday.

The firm expressed “high confidence” that pipelines would be...