Securing Distributed Energy Resources: An Example of Industrial Internet of Things Cybersecurity
Summary
TDi and its ConsoleWorks product, which manages privileged-user access and permissions, participated in the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) practice guide. “Our goal is to support research activities in these industries and create efficiencies, while validating and learning additional challenges that take our product in directions resulting in more value to our customers.” This practice guide aims to help organizations: • Protect and trust data and communications traffic of grid-edge devices and networks • Capture an immutable record of control actions across DERs Small-scale DERs are growing rapidly and transforming the power grid. A distribution utility may need to remotely communicate with thousands of DERs—some of which may not even be owned or configured by the utility—to control the operating points and monitor the status of these devices. Many companies are not equipped to provide secure access to DERs and monitor and trust the rapidly growing amount of data coming from them or flowing into them. Any attack that can deny, disrupt, or tamper with DER communications could prevent a utility from performing necessary control commands and could diminish grid resiliency.
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