9 April 2025 | Online
The EE-ISAC is enthutiastic to announce its first webinar of 2025, held in collaboration with IDEMIA Secure Transactions: Future-Proofing Energy Distribution Grids against Quantum Computing Threats: Will you be ready?. Celebrated (and recorded) online on April 9, 2025, from 15:00 to 16:00 CET, the session will count on the presentation of Olivier Nora (Chief Open Innovation at IDEMIA), and Carsten Fischer (Senior Business Development Manager at IDEMIA).
Energy Transition will require significant investment in distributed grid infrastructure and digitalization programs, to anticipate the change in the energy demand and place customers at the center of energy systems. Yet at the same time, grid infrastructure will be facing a unique threat, which can jeopardize all investment and efforts towards digitalization: there is a consensus that in the not-too-distant future, quantum computers with a sufficient sophistication level will break much of the cryptography that currently secures our energy distribution grids. What is still being debated is when that will happen.
Yet security agencies worldwide are focusing on scenarios where quantum threat becomes significant in 2030-2035, and NIST has just released draft guidance enforcing migration before that timing. What would it mean for the distribution grid, and for the future investment required for energy transition?
In this presentation, we will take the example of electricity smart meters and discuss the potential quantum computing threats to electricity distribution. We will discuss priorities to address, possible migration paths and steps that DSOs and equipment manufacturers can take to be prepared for the arrival of quantum computing.
For any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us: contact@ee-isac.eu
