{"id":78114,"date":"2023-06-20T01:59:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/climate\/2023\/06\/20\/should-we-be-protecting-ourselves-against-cyberattacks-on-renewable-energy-systems\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T01:59:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:59:15","slug":"should-we-be-protecting-ourselves-against-cyberattacks-on-renewable-energy-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/climate\/2023\/06\/20\/should-we-be-protecting-ourselves-against-cyberattacks-on-renewable-energy-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be protecting ourselves against cyberattacks on renewable energy systems?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Digitalized and interconnected technology used to set up renewable projects and <\/strong>energy grids have increased the risk and occurrence of cyberattacks<\/strong>, Reuters<\/a> reports. The energy transition\u2019s use of decentralized, small units \u2014 such as wind and solar plants as well as smart meters \u2014 connected digitally significantly increases the number of entry points for attacks, director at Germany's Institute for Security and Safety Swantje Westpfahl explained to Reuters.<\/p>\n

This became clear on the onset of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine:<\/strong> European energy companies saw the amount of hacker attacks on their operations shoot up since the start of the war in Ukraine last year, the newswire said. Russia launched an average of 10 cyberattacks a day \u2014 with the Ukrainian energy sector a priority target \u2014 Ukraine's SBU security service told Reuters. Last February, a Russian cyberattack on a Ukrainian satellite communications network knocked out the remote monitoring of more than 5.8k wind turbines of Germany's Enercon, shutting them down completely.<\/p>\n

Similar attacks happened in our neck of the woods:<\/strong> Hackers used the Triton virus malware \u2014 which MIT Technology Review<\/a> calls as the world\u2019s most murderous malware \u2014 to remotely take over the safety systems of a Saudi petrochemical plant back in 2017 bringing it to a standstill, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Digital security is being ramped up in response:<\/strong> German utility company EnBW told Reuters it is \u201cexpanding its 200-strong cyber security team to protect operations ranging from wind and solar to grids.\u201d Swedish grid operator Cem Gocgoren has roughly quadrupled its cybersecurity team in the last four years in parallel to improving security awareness amongst staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digitalized and interconnected technology used to set up renewable projects and energy grids have increased the risk and occurrence of cyberattacks, Reuters reports. The energy transition\u2019s use of decentralized, small units \u2014 such as wind and solar plants as well as smart meters \u2014 connected digitally significantly increases the number of entry points for attacks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[1733,1732,11,73,88,1734],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-78114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-your-way-out","tag-digital-infrastructure","tag-digitization","tag-enterpriseclimate","tag-on-your-way-out","tag-renewables","tag-russia-ukraine-war","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"bd905dab-9ab3-4f04-b800-7b39c4dc5e1d","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/1837.jpg","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[78090],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nShould we be protecting ourselves against cyberattacks on renewable energy systems? - Climate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/climate\/2023\/06\/20\/should-we-be-protecting-ourselves-against-cyberattacks-on-renewable-energy-systems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should we be protecting ourselves against cyberattacks on renewable energy systems?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Digitalized and interconnected technology used to set up renewable projects and energy grids have increased the risk and occurrence of cyberattacks, Reuters reports. 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