Cybersecurity

Theresa Lanowitz explains why energy companies and security professionals ‘need to be singing from the same hymn sheet’.

The Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework provides complete and customized assessments of their cybersecurity risks and demonstrates how to improve resilience.

More cyberattacks will be seen within the energy sector over the coming years as a result of the failure by the majority of global energy companies to practise basic cybersecurity protocols.

The webinar is aiming to explore the cybersecurity threats to an energy system that is increasingly made up of smaller renewable generation assets and forms of distributed generation, such that the grid system is potentially vulnerable to the greater number of connection points and lack of a central hand in ensuring security of the system.

The North American Energy Standards Boards (NAESB) is to continue to focus on standards development to support blockchain and more generally cybersecurity.

Europe's biggest utility is to extend the lifecycle of a gas turbine unit at a combined-cycle power plant in Italy by utilizing cutting-edge control automation.