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EE-ISAC Threat Intelligence Task Force Forum holds its physical meeting in Brussels

The EE-ISAC Advocacy Task Force met in Rome, hosted by Enel, bringing together Board members and sector experts to align on 2026 priorities, strengthen its role in European energy policy, and outline concrete advocacy actions.

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EE-ISAC Advocacy Task Force Meeting in Rome

The EE-ISAC Advocacy Task Force met in Rome, hosted by Enel, bringing together Board members and sector experts to align on 2026 priorities, strengthen its role in European energy policy, and outline concrete advocacy actions.

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EE-ISAC attends the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Public Hearing

The EE-ISAC Board Member, Wolfgang Löw, joined the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield of the European Parliament. He spoke during a public hearing on foreign threats to strategic infrastructure.

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Nextcloud: the EE-ISAC continues ensuring security for its members

The EE-ISAC has deployed a new Nextcloud instance to ensure the continuity of a secure and reliable sharing platform for its members and stakeholders.

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Marcel Kulicke: Honorary Member of the EE-ISAC

Marcel Kulicke has joined the EE-ISAC as an honorary member. With long and solid experience in cybersecurity and a passion for fostering collaboration, Marcel’s addition to the community brings new opportunities for growth and exchange.

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The EE-ISAC joins the European Commission Smart Energy Expert Group

We are honoured to announce the EE-ISAC involvement in the European Commission Smart Energy Expert Group (SEEG), a specialized advisory body established by the European Commission to support and guide the development and implementation of smart energy policies and technologies within the European Union.

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EE-ISAC and FS-ISAC sign Memorandum of Understanding

The Financial Services Information Sharing Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and the European Energy Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC) sign on August 2024 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to further promote the exchange of cyber security information of the EE-ISAC and enhance the cyber resilience of European electric power critical infrastructures.

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EE-ISAC and Cynergy-ISAC sign Memorandum of Understanding

Cynergy-ISAC and the European Energy Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC) sign today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to further promote the exchange of cyber security information of the EE-ISAC and enhance the cyber resilience of European electric power critical infrastructures.

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EE-ISAC and Europe’s Distribution System Operators (E.DSO), sign Memorandum of Understanding

E.DSO and the EE-ISAC signed a Memorandum of Understanding that aims to reinforce the cyber resilience of critical infrastructures in Europe and practices by promoting customers’ empowerment as well as improving the use of clean energy sources through electrification.

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EE-ISAC and the European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) sign Memorandum for Understanding

European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) and the European Energy Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to reinforce the cyber resilience of critical infrastructures in Europe and practices.

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EE-ISAC and European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) Establish Partnership

ENCS and EE-ISAC reconnect through formal partnership to strengthen cyber-resilience in Europe’s energy industry by sharing cyber-threat intelligence and cyber information in order to detect and counter threats.

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EE- ISAC and Operational and Technology ISAC (OT-ISAC) sign new Cooperation Agreement

OT-ISAC and EE-ISAC to strengthen cyber-resilience by sharing cyber-threat intelligence and cyber information in order to detect and counter threats

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Strengthening cyber-resilience across critical infrastructures: EE-ISAC and EUROCONTROL sign new Cooperation Agreement

Both institutions will now share cyber-threat intelligence and actionable cyber information, enabling them to prioritise effective mitigation and detection means to counter cyber threats.

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Threat Intelligence Management White Paper

EE-ISAC members believe that Threat Intelligence can play a very important role in both, preventive and reactive cyber security. Considering the additionally complexity arising from Industrial Control System (ICS) Attack Vectors, the energy sector, more than other sectors, seems to depend even more on good Threat Intelligence Management.

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European Commission supports EE-ISAC

The EE-ISAC is proud to be acknowledged by the European Commission in the fight of cyber crimes in the energy […]

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Trilateral Memorandum of Understanding

The EE-ISAC is proud to announce the signing of a Trilateral Memorandum of Understanding with US E-ISAC and JE-ISAC on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at GridSecCon 2018 in Las Vegas (US), to promote international collaboration and information sharing through public–private partnership.

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Cooperative models for ISACs

Information Sharing and Analysis Centres (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector.

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The missing link in protecting critical facilities

How does one tell if unusual traffic on the network originated from a malicious insider, a malware or some rogue device attached to the network?

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Accomplishing a mature cyber security culture: how to empower employees as your First Line of Defense?

Like any other grid operator, EDP Distribuição has the responsibility to protect its critical energy infrastructure. What can we learn from their strong focus cultural change?

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Introduction to the concept of Hybrid Threats

Georgios Giannopoulos (Scientific Officer, European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre) will be speaking at the EE-ISAC Expert Seminar on 7 September. He will provide us with an introduction to the concept of Hybrid Threats.

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Blockchain & the energy grid: what about it?

In the upcoming Member Meeting of EE-ISAC on 18 & 19 May, Wim Bouman (Strategy Consultant at Alliander) will share some of the insights and lessons learned over the past year in exploring blockchain technology.

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Japanese & European energy communities sign partnership agreement on cyber security

The European Energy – Information Sharing & Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC) and the Japan Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (JE-ISAC) formally established their partnership in conducting activities to ensure cyber security.

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Announcement: European and Japanese energy communities formalize partnership on cybersecurity

On the 16th of May 2017, the European Energy – Information Sharing & Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC) and the Japan Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (JE-ISAC) will formally establish their partnership in conducting activities to ensure cyber security.

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PoC: Ransomware attacks targeting SCADA devices

As part of the information sharing during our Member Meeting in May, Applied Risk has briefed its fellow EE-ISAC members about a PoC they undertook determining that target field devices could be compromised and turned to a black-box development environment to develop and spread ransomware.

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EE-ISAC supporting cyber security analysis in the Black Sea region

EE-ISAC was invited to participate in an interactive workshop with local grid operators, being the first of two consecutive programs launched by the Energy Technology and Governance Program (ETAG) of USAID and the United States Energy Association (USEA) under the UCSI flag.

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Inter-substation communication: Optimal signed-encrypted R-GOOSE and R-Sampled Values on IP-Multicast networks

Future electric power systems must be able to integrate distributed energy resources such as photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines, but also smart devices and electric vehicles.

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EE-ISAC partners up with Smart Sec Europe

EE-ISAC has signed a Partnership Agreement with Smart Sec Europe and is proud to be involved in this event on 29-30 November 2016 taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Cybersecurity for European infrastructure

Aurélio Blanquet, Chairman of the European Energy Information Sharing & Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC) and Director of the Grids’ Digital Platform at EDP Distribuição in Portugal, talks with Siemens about the EE-ISAC.

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EDP ​​Distribuição receives EE-ISAC in Porto

On the 15th and 16th of September, EDP Distribuição organized the General Assembly of the EE-ISAC, which brought 20 representatives of the 15 European organizations that are members of this association together in Porto.

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Trust-based security information sharing in the US – Lessons learned

In the run-up to the launch of EE-ISAC in December, our future members are meeting today in the Hague to decide upon final details about the partnership.

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Live Demonstration: your network’s ability to auto-respond to a cyber intrusion.

The EE-ISAC was invited to take part to the Energy Intrusion Detection 2019 which took place 29-31 January 2019 in Amsterdam, organized by Smart Grids Forum, to share best practices on Cybersecurity in the European Energy industry.

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The role of trust in improving the cyber resilience of the European energy grid

The EE-ISAC was invited to take part to the Energy Intrusion Detection 2019 which took place 29-31 January 2019 in Amsterdam, organized by Smart Grids Forum, to share best practices on Cybersecurity in the European Energy industry.

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Enel’s view on data and information sharing within the setting up of EE-ISAC

The Energy Utilities Cyber Security Summit was held in London, on December 5th 2018, organized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Energy Association (USEA), and Edison Electric Institute (EEI).

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Security measure mapping

A map helps you navigate. Keeping this in mind, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) – EE-ISAC Stakeholder – produced a 92 page catalogue of 45 available security measures, grouped in 11 domains.

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Is cryptography the answer to security threats?

This paper on Circuit Challenges from Cryptography by the researchers of KU Leuven (EE-ISAC Stakeholder) demonstrates with actual data how conflicting challenges around implementing cryptography can be addressed.

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Aurélio Blanquet (EDP Distribuição) elected as Chair EE-ISAC

EE-ISAC is the first European ISAC for the smart energy sector. ISACs are networks of trust in which both private and public parties share security information either on a Human-to-Human basis via Member Meetings, digitally via an Information Sharing Platform or on a Machine-to-Machine level via Situational Awareness Networks.

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Organised crime and EU solidarity – Enel Italy talks cybersecurity

Metering & Smart Energy International spoke to Massimo Rocca, head of information security at Enel Italy, to better understand the European cybersecurity landscape and how the global energy utility is gearing up to combat threats to data and infrastructure.

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The aftermath of Stuxnet: answers from the CRISALIS project

The discovery of highly sophisticated and targeted attacks such as Stuxnet and Duqu showed that these threats are a reality. Their success in infiltrating Critical Infrastructure environments is calling attention on the ineffectiveness of standard security mechanisms at detecting them.

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Cyber security – Does the grid need a new approach? YES!

With the increased connectivity of the smart grid to the internet, taking cyber security measures is a must. However, we cannot pile up our security and degrade our performance. What do we need to start doing today, to prevent a future trade-off in security?

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Barack Obama calls for cyber security information sharing

During our Open House Member Meeting on 4 November 2015 at European Utility Week, Chris Blask (Chair ICS-ISAC, US and executive director of Webster University’s Cyberspace Research Institute) will share his lessons learned in cyber security information sharing models in the US.

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Task Forces

Membership & Partnership

The EE-ISAC has created this dynamic team dedicated to strengthening relationships, sparking new collaborations, and expanding our vibrant community. Focused on keeping out current members and partners engaged and satisfied, this taks force is also exploring exciting new initiatives and actively conneccting with proespective allies to drive growth and impact together

Threat Intelligence & Incident Response

EE-ISAC aims to help utilities improve their resilience to cyber attacks by enabling information sharing and improving cybersecurity awareness across the energy sector. Forescout Technologies elaborates a monthly report that summarizes the main vulnerabilities, incidents and malwares detected, along with some statistics related to the MISP platform. Any organization can send relevant cyber threats or attacks to be collected on the report

Threat Landscape

The EE-ISAC, in collaboration with ENISA’s team, is working on the establishment of a threat modeling standard to be disseminated among Members as the guidelines and best practices of threat intelligence and incident management

Advocacy

Acts to solidify EE-ISAC as the unified voice for cybersecurity in the European energy industry by monitoring EU policy developments, EU funding opportunities and engaging with European institutions

Communications

This task force is in charge of coordinating the marketing initiatives of the Association, specifically the ones related to promotional activities, webinars, events and the EE-ISAC presence in international and European conferences on cybersecurity and digitalization

Physical Security

Composed by 16 representatives of the EE-ISAC members, this task force supports utilities in enhancing physical security capabilities and ensuring compliance by sharing international best practices and use cases from the energy and other critical sectors. It synthesizes global member expertise into whitepapers and actionable guidance to help businesses effectively protect their assets

EE-ISAC Gallery

EE-ISAC at the European Parliament

 

Media

Collaborating Across Continents and In Quasi Real Time

Starting European Energy Information – Sharing Analysis Center

Meeting the Members and Going to Japan

Knowledge Sharing and European Parliament Panel

Celebrating 5 successful years of cooperation for a resilient European Power Grid

Datatopia Podcast: Cyber Security

EU Commission supports EE-ISAC 2019
Smart Energy International 2018
Smart Energy International 2018
Global Smart Energy Elites 2016