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The O/G (oil and gas) industry is undoubtedly a place for high-tech machines, technology, and methodology involving large variety of systems, but excluding security system in the equation can really be devastating for companys business continuation. For examples, vessel crew may get killed by explosion of vessel fuel mixed with condensate stolen from gas pipe line. Social unrest may stop a rig operation which may cost huge amount of money. Company port not following international ship and port facility security code (ISPS code) may prevent tankers from taking our goods to the market.Each production sharing contractor (PSC) has a branch in charge of their security. It may be a service, a department, a division and so on. Nonetheless, security measures cannot be performed by the security branch alone, no matter how skillful it is on security matters, because the core competence the branch delivers is “physical security, ranging from guarding, escorting, patrolling, and the like, while spectrum of modern security duties may extend to more multi-discipline measures such as protection against blue collar crimes such as in some oil smuggling cases, sabotage related to industrial disputes, cyber crimes, and so on and so forth.To furnish the security branch with all those disciplines is almost unworkable as a skill may take years for someone to acquire. Even when complete varieties of experts were fantastically recruited by the security branch as a single entity, they will unlikely cope with the updates on the subject which should be best nurtured within the right entity as everything on the field moves - no permanence.Therefore, the security job should no longer be the monopoly of security department, and harnessing resources from various departments - especially those related to security matter - into an integrated security system (read “INSIST) should be the way to go.