Safety instrumented systems (SISs) implemented on petroleum installations must be highly reliable to protect human life and environment. As of today, monitoring and follow-up of technical status of SIS components require considerable manual effort by extracting and interpreting maintenance and...

This paper documents the results of an empirical study of cyber incident response readiness in the Norwegian petroleum industry. The study addressed the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) capacity among various actors in the industry in handling critical cybersecurity incidents in industrial...

The resilience of modern societies is to a large degree determined by the resilience of their Critical Infrastructures (CI). These infrastructures are critical because interruptions not only influence the infrastructures themselves, but loss of functionality has secondary effects on the society. The...

This paper describes the results of an assessment of user needs in interconnected critical infrastructures. The emphasis is on the needs of governmental agencies esponsible for overseeing the risk management practices of enterprises dealing with major accident potential. The case is the orwegian...

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has stressed the need to manage and monitor operational and organizational barrier elements. Personnel should understand what barriers have been established and which function they are intended to fulfil, and performance requirements should be defined in respect...