23 April 2015

Will Iran Use Cyber to Attack Saudi Arabia’s Oil and Gas Industry?

April 19, 2015

This month, Wikistrat ran a 48-hour simulation with the goal of mapping out the various retaliatory options available to Iran should it choose to respond to the Saudi-led Arab military intervention in Yemen. 

One of the scenarios explored the possibility of an Iranian cyberattack against Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas infrastructure and the national firm, Aramco. In essence, it would be a repetition of the Aramco incident from 2012, but on a larger scale. 

The scenario was presented to two of our top cyber experts: Dr. Bruce Wald, former Director for all NRL C4I and military space technology and systems in the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Ali-Reza Anghaie, Principal and co-founder of Carbon Dynamics and an expert on cyber activism and cyber warfare. Here is what they had to say: 

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