On March 30, ARPEL's Cybersecurity Committee held the first exchange panel of the year, which addressed the importance of maturity models. The coordination and moderation were in charge of Pablo Amoedo, Project Manager of ARPEL.

More than 70 professionals from Ancap, Andes, Ecopetrol, ENAP, EP Petroecuador, Grupo Capsa, Hunt Oil, OCP Ecuador, Oldelval, Pemex, Petroperú, Raizen, Recope, TGN and YPF participated in the meeting.

Javier Castillo from YPF; José Valiente from Spain's Industrial Cybersecurity Center; Maximillian Kon from WisePlant; and Gerardo González, an independent industrial cybersecurity consultant, took part in the expert panel.

The most important concepts shared were that, even when there are different cybersecurity maturity models, all of them are useful, and what really matters is to understand them and make good use of them.

The experts emphasized that cybersecurity maturity measurement is often confused with cybersecurity risk analysis, and it is mistakenly believed that a high level of maturity means low cybersecurity risk.

Cybersecurity maturity measurement is a "snapshot" at a given point in time and for a given scope that shows what capabilities an organization has to counter a cyberattack.

Link to the full recording of the webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSdsev-1ac&t=25s

On the other hand, ARPEL's Cybersecurity Committee, together with WisePlant, offered a cybersecurity management leveling course for project managers on April 18 and 19.

Professionals from 18 ARPEL member companies participated in the two training days: Ancap, Cupet, Ecopetrol, Enap, EP Petroecuador, Geopark, OCP Ecuador, Oldelval, PAE, Petroperú, Raizen, Recope, SLB, Staatsolie, Tecpetrol, TGN, YPF and YPFB.