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Gabor Varjas, CISO, Group
Information Security, MOL
GROUP, a leading integrated oil
and gas corporation, talks about
the cybersecurity challenges of
Digital Transformation and how
the company is leveraging RSA
Security solutions to help keep
cyberthreats at bay.
M
OL Group is a leading
integrated Central
and East European oil
and gas corporation
headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.
It has operations in more than 30
countries and employs 26,000
people worldwide. But overall, fortunately, we don’t really
have any kind of strange issues which
are just for the oil and gas sector.
MOL’s exploration and production
activities are supported by 80 years’
experience in the hydrocarbon field. The organisation is going through a
digitalisation effort. We have a roadmap
that makes sure all the elements of the
business are operating within specific
cybersecurity frameworks. And when
any of the various parts of the business
are looking to install new technologies,
they have to be covered by the
cybersecurity standards.
What are the unique cyberthreats
your business faces?
I would say that, in general, we are
not facing anything too different from
the usual IT threats but what I would
distinguish is that we do have some
certain unique risks coming in the form
of industrial risk.
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SECURING OT IN THE
OIL AND GAS SECTOR
We spoke to the company’s CISO,
Gabor Varjas, to find out more about
some of the key industry talking points
and how the business worked with RSA
Security to reduce its risk exposure.
www.intelligentciso.com
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What kind of new threats/
challenges has Digital
Transformation posed to
your business?
How are you approaching
the security of Operational
Technology (OT)?
The core business – and traditional
business – is OT. The technicians and
business managers have been running
this area for a while, so having them
think about cybersecurity is a challenge.
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