DOE releases wind cybersecurity roadmap –

The recently released Roadmap
for Wind Cybersecurity outlines challenges of cyber threats to the wind industry,
its technologies and control systems and presents activities and best practices
that the wind industry can use to improve cybersecurity.

Funded by the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), the roadmap
features written contributions from authors at DOE’s National Laboratories and
is intended to:

• Raise wind industry awareness of increasing cyber threats and
  vulnerabilities to wind technologies and industrial control systems;
• Lay out a time-phased framework for addressing such weaknesses
  in the near-, mid-, and long-term;
• Illuminate best practices that apply to the wind industry;
• Identify research needs, gaps, and opportunities that might
  advance technology and strengthen protections;
• Inform future R&D investments in this area.

As the percentage of wind and other renewable energy systems
grows among power generators in the US, cybersecurity for integrated control
systems and related technology has become an increasingly important and urgent
matter.

Strategies for cybersecurity assessment, protection, threat
detection, response and recovery include an array of wind-specific
cyber-research and development; further development of standards and protocols;
the promotion of best practices for cybersecurity; and expanded information
sharing and engagement among wind energy stakeholders.

Although specific to wind, the roadmap’s strategies are likely
applicable to other forms of energy and industrial control systems. 

Download the roadmap here: Roadmap for Wind Cybersecurity