This whitepaper explains why energy companies face severe cyber risk as critical infrastructure operators increasingly connect legacy operational technology with modern IT systems, expanding attack surfaces and exposure to ransomware, phishing, and nation state threats. It describes challenges such as outdated and unpatchable industrial control systems, limited visibility across distributed sites, reliance on basic antivirus tools, siloed security controls, alert fatigue, and small teams with constrained expertise. Regulatory pressure from frameworks such as NERC CIP and NIST further raises the stakes for rapid detection and response. The paper argues that point solutions cannot deliver the speed, visibility, or coordination required in always-on environments where outages have serious ope

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