So, welcome to section 2.3., And
in this section, I'm going to give you an overview of
the Smart Energy security systems. It's going
to get real here, pretty pretty quick. And
so by that, I mean that this Smart
Energy doesn't just mean the interconnectivity
and it's dependencies on the producers in the
market suppliers and utility.
Are the consumers over the years and the section? I'm
going to demonstrate how these
companies have been under extreme stress because
of all of the attacks because
of the been targets of these attacks.
So in this section, I'm just going to cover a kind of are in
Broad Strokes how over the last 20 years,
the size and frequencies of these attacks of
the systems has increased, and how
we need to understand the potential root causes to
understand the threat types and who's behind them. And
again, in the
third, in the third part, what we need to prepare
as a comprehensive approach to the protect the
Future Energy Systems that we're going to.
Depending on.
So in this diagram, it
may take a little bit to understand, but let me explain it
quite quickly. Is that yesterday, the
could be, literally yesterday, or a hundred years ago,
is that there were very few larger
large, power plants that were providing our
Urban needs or needs for
the cities and citizens.
Today or even tomorrow that production is
going to be based on many, many smaller power
producers. And that's a that's
a wonderful transition that is not huge
infrastructural works that it actually can
be smaller independent stuff. And in terms
of the marketplace in the old days, it was a centralized
mostly Newton National initiative
and then tomorrow or in
the future.
Is going to be completely decentralized and
ignoring boundaries where we're
looking at much more of the local micro
kinds of situations and
intranet. And in terms of transition, the
old days, we're talking about massive,
infrastructures to distribute all of this large,
large energy, and needs through
lines and pipelines. But tomorrow, it's
going to be much smaller.
Or we can actually with batteries and
virtual power plants. As I mentioned last time, we
can actually achieve those trans. Local hyperlocal
e, transmission needs the distribution in
the old days. Of course was one one way that
a hold of these energy supplier Service Supply your
house or business or city with these needs
in the future. It's going to be completely bio
directional. So we are not
just consuming all those energy but our
sleeper.
I think someone's energy and I do micro level. And
so we as
homeowners or city dwellers
have relied passively and
only paying what we consumed as a price, but
tomorrow, how we're going to be engaging in
participating in the system.
This is kind of complex. I was just wanted to borrow my
personal experience of who
these kinds of players are in this whole ecosystem as
part energy ecosystem. And this is about really
intelligent grid operation. So
first and foremost, we
need the technology, which
is the grid connections, connections from
businesses and homes, and
there's going to be a
And of congestion points, whereby the
market can determine
what the value of the end of the kilowatt hour
is you have the, the other commercial aggregator that
can actually combine all of
those households and all the different businesses together. And
then you have the distributor
like Leander here.
Except for example, who can provide
These energy requirements.
And so what
you need here is very simply the
market, aggregator technical
aggregator and a
distributed system operator and
a supplier and an exchanger and
these get, it gets complicated here,
of course, because there's so many kind of players in the system, but
that's my point.
There are a lot of moments where
vulnerabilities are created.
so energy is, of
course, becoming a
favorite Target for attacks and
Over the last. Yeah, 20 years. We
can just look at some examples in California. There were a
couple of attacks on the power distribution center,
web servers. This was the
in 2009, there was
this stuxnet which was the first digital
weapon targeting Valves and sent refuses of
Iranian nuclear facility, again, an energy
source, but if that breaks, you
have some really catastrophic
Take consequences black energy example,
which is an ICS specific malware, creating a
national black out, and Ukraine.
It's not just a blackout cities. It's another thing to black out
an entire country. This was the first just five
years ago. Five six years ago in Destroyer for
the second time a targeting Cyber attack causes a
blackout and Ukraine. This is just exploiting
different vulnerabilities and systems of entire countries.
Again, try to enter Isis as well.
We're targeting Industry Safety Systems in
the Mideast and most recently. Maybe you
guys you
Participating. This course may remember that the colonial
Pipeline and the US was
a ransomware attack that which caused huge outages
on the natural gas system and
it
not it didn't just shut down the the installation for
two days, but the financial consequences
were quite quite big. So
let's get into some of these potential root
causes.
and,
Like I said, some of these are transmission. All
trans generational distributional, networking kinds
of vulnerabilities. What you're seeing here
is a diagram that kind
of explains where all those vulnerabilities to
happen. So from the transmission side, we have physical security vulnerabilities
that can create large-scale, disruption moly
and disconnect Services, attacking
the generation again. A
A lot of these systems are really, really old and, and can
be and disrupted by ransomware attacks. Even
the distribution of energy can be
attacked at to disrupt, and which
of course, consequences lead to shortages
and outages. And of
course that working is, is
equally important meaning
that the large attacks to iot S assist
like Internet of Things.
Devices, for example, Smart Meters,
electric vehicles can
lead to theft of really
important information as well, man. I'm going to get into
that a bit later, but these are all kinds of four
types of attacks on our Smart Energy ecosystem.
So last but not least, we can talk about solutions
to protect our Smart Energy System and here
are six Super handy tips and suggestions
to protect the critical energy infrastructure. What
we can talk about is we can have
agencies or teams that are completely dedicated
to one 24/7 monitoring to
secure these cyber security analytics and response.
Plans situational awareness, teams
within companies.
Can constantly identify inform and communicate threats
internally, and externally to the vendors and
suppliers. So, when things happen, they're there to notify
them are gaps again. It's
all about firewalls and kinds
of protection systems to to
protect the gaps between the,
the operational technology in the, it
networks, the services compliant
requirements.
Meaning that the there's
a lot of regulations that we need to be adhering
to and we're up to Snuff on all those things
standard. Protocols equally that
there's a lot of standardization that
we need to make sure that we are adhering to and
we need to get familiar with mention them. Here,
the IEC 101 iuc 104 standards like
ISO 27000. Look
those up. And let's
Protect the workforce and the data.
In other words, we're not going to allow any of
these people to steal, those crucial informations that
maker operations, applications and networks function.
So this concludes Smart Energy
and the next section. We're going to be talking about future
Mobility.