Coso ERM and cyber risks in oil and gas industry

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The business world is changing rapidly, new risks continue to emerge at a faster pace than has been seen in the past while existing risks are also evolved. To compact and bring more value in dealing with risks, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has updated its most widely recognised risk management frameworks - COSO ERM 2004. The newly introduced framework, COSO Enterprise Risk Management - Integrating with Strategy and Performance (COSO - ERM 2017), aims to provide companies with a more robust approach to managing risks, which helps to create, preserve and realise value of the companies.
Oil and gas is one of the highest risk and capital-intensive industries facing many uncertainties around exploration, extraction, distribution, volatile commodity prices and the perplexing political landscape. Therefore, a discipline and systematic approach for risk management is needed for oil and gas companies to identify, assess, manage and monitor risks, and COSO ERM provides a risk management framework to do so. Oil and gas companies are also in the forefront to adopt many technologies such as robotics, digitisation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) into the operational environment. As a result, cyber risk becomes increasingly important for oil and gas companies to respond to.