Cybersecurity for energy sector
Our economies and industries, our critical services and infrastructures strongly depend on energy to work on a daily basis. Critical infrastructures as they are, the various energy sources and transformation & distribution capacities have to be deeply secured to ensure our sovereignty and autonomy.
Implications in the energy sector
Smarts grids projects and realizations, renewable energy (including MREs) spread strongly rely on digital technologies for their design, follow-up and maintenance. Let’s see how our Hybrid Cyber Range helps supporting energy sector cybersecurity professionals to secure their critical infrastructures.
DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range, which can be used as a digital twin, contributes to strengthening cybersecurity of the systems and networks energy sector professionals design or operate, and allows them to successfully take up the numerous challenges they have to face.
Defending energy sector digital systems in depth and from start to finish
Energy sector information networks and systems are exposed to both generic and specific threats, which can jeopardize its various components, as well as its supply chain.
The ability to recreate the whole of this digital ecosystem in its diversity, complexity and heterogeneity makes it possible to anticipate, model, reproduce, and evaluate one’s readiness to detect the various cyber threats which could occur on it. When it comes to availability, integrity or privacy offences, the better you know the threats, the better you will be prepared to protect yourself against it. DIATEAM can rely on its internal Red Team, on its proven experience in the energy sector, on its Hybrid Cyber Range software solution and on its close relationship with its clients and the issues they face to make it possible to evaluate, in a safe system, the resilience of energy sector digital systems (MREs, smart grid, smart meters networks, production, substations…) against advanced threats. Dependencies modeling, resilience tests, hardware equipment (e.g. PLCs – Programmable Logic Controllers) integration through hybrid connection are capabilities which directly address challenges faced by energy sector security architects to evaluate and ensure availability, integrity and privacy of the whole ecosystem, and to anticipate emerging threats.
Example of recreation of a port smart grid on DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range for H2020 Cyber-MAR European project.
Securing life cycle
In a context of strengthening regulations in the energy sector (NIS 2, CER, CRA, NZIA…), DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range should ideally be used throughout the whole product life cycle, from its design to its decommissioning.
The major interest of the Hybrid Cyber Range is indeed to model and secure the whole life cycle of digital products, to perform operations which would not be feasible in production for operational, security or safety matters, a question often raised in the energy sector. It is also very well suited to implement security maintenance, or patch management processes, e.g. to perform non-regression tests, especially with long life cycles as they are in the energy sector.
Raising awareness, educating, training
Hybrid Cyber Range is obviously a perfect tool to raise awareness, educate and train for cyber crisis management.
Awareness-raising is usually intended for executives and decision makers, project managers, technicians, but also for the workforce as a whole to have them face cyber threats that are specific to the energy sector, as well as operational consequences that are potentially critical for the sector. Hybrid Cyber Range also makes it possible to produce theoretical and practical training content, and to generate training paths for the staff working in energy sector. Finally, training is about making technical or operational cyber crisis scenarios by simulating cyber incident scenarios in conditions that are very close to reality, also when multiple actors (public, private sector: designers, operators, contractors…), see multiple countries, are concerned. These trainings, which DIATEAM has been a specialist of for many years, allow to strengthen response plans, to test coordination between technical and operational teams in order to improve decision-making and reactivity in a crisis situation.
Maximizing return on investment
In a budgetary context that is sometimes constrained, Hybrid Cyber Range is the perfect tool to maximize return on investment.
Designed to work on collaborative mode, even on complex international projects, its usage possibilities go far beyond the cyber frame, and it can also be used for data generation and Research & Development operations for the energy sector. DIATEAM offers a wide array of possibilities (acquisition, renting, content provision, exercises hosting …) which can provide for a wide range of needs.
Business and technological ethics
It’s in DIATEAM’s DNA to accompany its clients in order to ensure them, with time, as much autonomy as possible.
We do not, and we never will artificially limit our Hybrid Cyber Range capacities. Based on free and open components, it offers maximal independence and interoperability. Finally, you are and will always remain owners of the content you create on it.
