Cyber attacks and energy dependecy

In the sense of recent attacks on power providing infrastructure around the globe, I've remembered my thoughts when I was last time in Gulf countries, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. These countries are even intuitively related to energy. If you think on oil and petrol first association is usually oil and money reach gulf countries. If you think more there is also a most modern technology there, since it can be easily bought and requires minimal local workforce to deal with it. It is same for all other aspects of life conclusion Is this combination is extremely vulnerable to cyber threats. They are impossibly depend on energy and technology to live everyday life, more than any the place on earth, only maybe the scientific base on Antarctica is more dependent. Last incidents show can misconfiguration or lack of proactivity can lead to disaster. What makes me thinking are recent fires in Dubai and some other issue which show “quality” control problems, and such problems are important in cyber attacks. It will be nice to have time and opportunity to work more, looks like very good situation for preventive digital forensics, but because of sheer size something vendor agnostic like Google GRR tool. 

4th May 2016,
Nice article on "Procurement: Saudis In Search Of Their Lost Work Ethic" StrartegyPage.com, which talks about quality problem, wokrforce etc, things so important in cyber vulnerability.