ENCS Strategy Assembly Meeting 2018
On 9th October 2018, ENCS held its yearly Strategy Assembly meeting in Rotterdam, co-hosted with Stedin, discussing the latest developments in cyber-security for grid operators. The meeting was attended by representatives from all of ENCS’ full members. It featured presentations on cyber-crime development by Europol and Rabobank’s findings on responsible disclosure and building a cyber […]
ENCS helps organize 4TU Cyber Security Week
Last week, ENCS welcomed 23 students from TU Delft and UTwente to Cyber Security Week in Amsterdam, hosted in collaboration with Netbeheer Nederland. The week provided the students with insight into the energy sector’s cyber security challenges, engaging them in practical exercises and talks by cyber-security experts from energy companies and government. For the students, […]
ENCS will presenting at the EUTC annual conference in Malmo
Utilities are under attack. And the attackers are getting more and more sophisticatd. So, the rest of us need to keep up. Part of overcoming this will be collaberation and the sharing of knowledge. Something the European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) sets out to do. Its annual conference is dedicated to telecoms issues within Europe’s […]
ENCS welcomes students to Energy Cyber Security Week
What does the energy transition mean for cyber security? What effect on security will widespread electric vehicles have? Do you have what it takes to defend a SCADA system from attack? For a week starting 3rd September, students from TU Delft and UTwente will find out. Jointly organised by the universities, ENCS and Netbeheer Nederland, […]
ENCS visits Enel Smart Grid Lab for latest Roundtable
ENCS held its latest member roundtable event today, kindly hosted by ENEL at its Smart Grid Lab in Milan. It was a fitting setting for lively, engaged debate on a range of smart grid cyber security topics. Members shared concrete insights into running security projects as well as findings from security evaluations they had conducted. […]
ENCS celebrates breakthrough year at General Assembly meeting
This year’s ENCS General Assembly, hosted yesterday by innogy in Essen, Germany, was an opportunity to look back on breakthrough year for the network. In terms of membership, 2017 saw ENCS expand both its scope and membership through greater cooperation with the transmission system operator (TSO) community in Europe. On the technical side, there was […]
ENCS at the ENTSO-E Annual conference 2017
A resilient grid: missing links and cybersecurity – such was the topic of a panel discussion at ENTSO-E’s annual conference, moderated by ENTSO-E’s Laurent Schmitt and joined by ENCS’ Anjos Nijk. Proceedings started with a key note speech from Roberto Bayetti of California ISO, sharing his view of a fast developing threat landscape with nation […]
Attackers out of luck as students defend the smart grid
Thirteen students just a day before Friday 13th – the stage was set for some serious bad luck, but the Delft University students that visited ENCS recently were quite fortunate indeed. ENCS hosted an exciting ‘Hack the Grid’ event at their offices in The Hague. In a realistic simulation, the students were pitted against each other […]
Collaboration is core at member and partner day
We held our second exclusive ENCS member and partner event in Amsterdam last week. It brought together our members, partners and staff to share information on the latest cyber security developments and projects. The day kicked off with a presentation from Walter van Boven, IT Manager Alliander and Chairman of the ENCS Assembly Committee. The […]
Strategy assembly
ENCS took the opportunity to sign up its newest member, AS “Sadales tīkls” (ST), at their annual Strategy Assembly on 5th October in Amsterdam. ST is Latvia’s largest energy provider, maintaining and developing the electricity network for over one million customers and covering 99 per cent of the country. The signing was symbolic of ENCS’ impressive […]