IT and Cybersecurity for Energy & Oil/Gas
Don't let a cyber attack derail your next multi-million dollar energy deal
We protect the corporate side of oil and gas. Keeping your capital calls secure, your proprietary land research private, and your institutional investors confident so you can focus on closing the deal.
30 minutes. Walk us through how a deal closes and we will point out where it could be intercepted.
A small office moving large sums is an easy target.
A mineral buyer, lease broker, or acquisition group might have fifteen people and close seven-figure transactions every month. Criminals have noticed. These are the four problems we see most:
- Redirected closing funds: A criminal reads a deal thread for weeks, then sends new wiring instructions that appear to come from the seller, the title attorney, or your own accounting staff.
- Leaked buy areas and offers: Target tracts, price per acre, and owner lists sit in inboxes and shared drives. If they get out, a competitor can outbid you before your offer letters arrive.
- Impersonated owners and partners: A lookalike address posing as a seller, an heir, or your own landman asks for documents or a payment, and nothing in the message looks wrong.
- Exposed owner records: W-9s, Social Security numbers, bank details, and heirship papers for hundreds of owners are stored on laptops and in email, and state breach laws cover every one of them.
Close on schedule and keep your play to yourself.
You should not have to slow a closing down to make it safe. Droptine works as the IT and security team for land and mineral companies. We protect the mailboxes where deals are negotiated, put a verification step in front of every outgoing payment, and control who can open your deal files.
Your landmen, analysts, and partners keep working the way they do now. The difference is that someone is watching.
Your landmen, analysts, and partners keep working the way they do now. The difference is that someone is watching.
Three Pillars of Protection
1. Payments and closings
- Protected mailboxes: Protection against business email compromise such as fraudulent payment instructions, and 24/7 monitoring that flags suspicious access, forwarding rules, and lookalike domains.
- Protected cloud tenants: Multi-factor authentication (MFA), role-based access, file sharing controls, and 24/7 monitoring for sign-ins from unauthorized or unexpected places.
2. Proprietary deal and title data
- Controlled deal folders: Purchase agreements, title runsheets, ownership reports, and maps kept where access is limited by role and removed when a project ends.
- Managed devices for staff and contract landmen: Laptops and phones that hold deal files are encrypted, kept up to date, and can be wiped if they go missing.
3. Owner trust and investor confidence
- A domain owners can trust: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set correctly so offer letters and payment notices reach owners, and so nobody else can send mail in your name.
- Answers for capital partners: Written policies and proof of working safeguards for investor due diligence, lender questionnaires, and cyber insurance applications.
Warning signs for mineral, royalty, and land companies
Wiring instructions for a closing are accepted by email, with no call to confirm them.
Contract landmen and brokers keep deal files on personal laptops the company has never seen.
Owner W-9s and bank details are sitting in inboxes and desktop folders.
People who left a project a year ago can still open its shared folder or data room.
Offer letters and emails to owners bounce or land in spam, and no one knows why.
An investor, lender, or insurer asked security questions you could not answer.
Common Questions
It should not. Monitoring, patching, and backups run in the background. Your team will notice two things: MFA at sign-in and the confirmation call before a wire. Each takes a minute or two, and we schedule larger changes between closings.
Most payment fraud begins in a mailbox. We secure every mailbox with MFA and monitoring, and we alert on the forwarding rules and lookalike domains criminals set up beforehand. We also help you adopt one firm rule: no new or changed wiring instruction is paid until someone confirms it by phone at a number already on file. No tool stops every attempt, so the phone call matters as much as the software.
We set up access by project and by role, require MFA to open deal folders, and remove access when a person or a project wraps up. We also review which outside parties still hold a working link.
Yes. We put the missing safeguards in place, write policies that describe what you really do, and help you complete the form with evidence behind each answer. The same package supports your cyber insurance application.
Yes. Contractors get a protected way to reach your files, such as a managed company account or a secured device, so deal data stays in your systems and off personal laptops. When the contract ends, their access ends the same day.
Owner tax and banking records count as personal information under state breach-notification laws, so losing them can mean notifying every affected owner. We limit where those records are stored, encrypt the devices that hold them, and keep the logs that show what was and was not opened. Your attorney can confirm the specific requirements in the states where you work.
Protect the next closing before it is on the calendar.
Tell us how your deals get done. In 30 minutes we will show you where a criminal would look first and what to fix before your next wire goes out.