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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
