E.DSO, ENCS and ENTSO-E hosted the 2nd webinar of the 3rd edition of their Cybersecurity event “Cybersecurity: Data Sharing”
The Hague/Brussels, 21 October 2020: Today, the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS), the Association of European Distribution System Operators…
NIS Directive Consultation
In October 2020, ENCS provided input to the European Commission’s NIS Directive Consultation. An extended summary of our responses and insights is…
ENCS and E.DSO release security requirements for distribution automation
The Hague, the Netherlands – October 13 , 2020 – ENCS, the European Network for Cyber Security, and E.DSO, the European Distribution System…
E.DSO, ENCS and ENTSO-E hosted the 3rd edition of their Cybersecurity event “Cybersecurity: Data Sharing”
The Hague/Brussels, 7 October 2020: The increasing cybersecurity threat and COVID-19 are causing challenges everywhere, including in the energy…
Join us for the “Cybersecurity: Data Sharing” conference on 7 and 21 October 2020!
Join us for the “Cybersecurity: Data Sharing” conference jointly organized by the Association of European Distribution System Operators (E.DSO), the…
Cybersecurity laadinfrastructuur van cruciaal belang bij toename elektrische auto’s
Arnhem 17 juni 2020 – Als de groei van het aantal elektrische auto’s doorzet, wordt een goede cybersecurity van cruciaal belang. Dat is de conclusie…
National Grid Gas Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission become newest members of ENCS
National Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) and National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) are part of National Grid plc which is one of the world’s…
Webinar ‘Cybersecurity en laadinfrastructuur’ voor elektrische auto’s
Speciaal voor gemeenten en provincies organiseren ENCS en ElaadNL op 17 juni een webinar over Cybersecurity en laadinfrastructuur. Er wordt onder…
Security requirements workshop for EV charging station vendors
ENCS and ElaadNL are organizing a workshop to present their new security requirements to vendors of EV charging stations. The workshop will be held…
ENCS completes member project on procuring secure equipment
ENCS has completed the member project on procuring secure equipment that started in 2019. ENCS has been supporting its members to procure secure…
Red Team – Blue Team Training for Netbeheer Nederland
From 9 to 11 March 2020, ENCS held a Red Team - Blue Team (RTBT) training for Netbeheer Nederland. Participants from all Dutch electricity grid…
ENCS and WindEurope join forces to address DER security
ENCS and WindEurope have joined forces in a project on the security of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). The safety and security of the electricity…
ENCS publishes new distribution automation security requirements
ENCS has published a new set of security requirements for distribution automation (DA) RTUs. The requirements were developed in the ENCS member…
Enel hosts ENCS General Assembly in Milan
On the 28th January 2020 in Milan, ENCS held its annual General Assembly to look back on the work completed and results achieved in 2019 and to look…
ENCS starts member project on DER security
ENCS has started a member project on the security of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Power generation is being integrated in the electricity grid…
Elering joins the European Network for Cyber Security
Estonia’s national Transmission System Operator (TSO) for electricity and natural gas, Elering, has become the latest member of European Network for…
Elaad and ENCS release updated requirements for EV charging stations
ElaadNL and ENCS have published new versions of the security requirements, updating the requirements initially published in 2016. The requirements…
Iberdrola joins the European Network for Cyber Security
The leading Spanish utility, has now joined the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS). The company becomes the latest member of ENCS’ work to…
ENCS workshop on procuring secure equipment and hardware security
ENCS is organizing a joint workshop on the member projects on procuring secure equipment and hardware security on November 25 and 26, close to…
Successful Red Team – Blue Team Training with ENTSO-E
On November and 12, 13 and 14, ENCS held its Read Team Blue Team (RTBT) training at Marriott hotel in The Hague with representatives from the ENTSO-E…
Market survey on EV charging security
Together with ElaadNL, ENCS is working on an update of the security requirements for charging stations that ENCS and ElaadNL produced in 2017. ENCS…
12th ENCS roundtable held in Malmö
ENCS held its 12th Security Roundtable on 1 November 2019, hosted by E.ON Sweden in Malmö. The ENCS roundtable brings together security experts…
E.DSO, ENCS and ENTSO-E host “Cybersecurity: Defence in Depth” workshop
How can we keep control over our European electricity grid infrastructure now nation state online activities targeting power grids are no longer in…
Market survey on Distribution Automation security
The European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) is conducting a market survey on Distribution Automation RTUs used in medium voltage transformer or…
Successful second ENCS Security Architecture training
On September 10 and 11, ENCS held its second Security Architecture training at Schiphol with representatives from both member and non-member…
ENCS and E.DSO provide first set of harmonised smart meter security requirements
The Hague, the Netherlands – 22 July 2019 – ENCS, the European Network for Cyber Security, and E.DSO, the European Distribution System Operators’…
ENCS at CIRED 2019
On June 4 to 6, ENCS is at CIRED 2019 in Madrid, presenting work done with Enexis. ENCS is co-author of two papers: Implementing an ISA/IEC-62443…
11th ENCS roundtable held in Riga
ENCS has held the 11th Security Roundtable on the 7th May 2019. It was hosted by the Latvian DSO Sadales tīkls in Riga. The ENCS roundtable brings…
ENCS delivered the second Red Team – Blue Team training to Österreichs Energie
In April 2019 ENCS delivered the second Red Team - Blue Team training to Österreichs Energie. The training was hosted in hotel Gut Brandlhof, a…
Member project on substation automation security completed
ENCS has completed the member project on substation automation security. The deliverables are available to ENCS members on the document portal. The…
First workshop for ENCS Member Project information security management
On 28th March, ENCS held the first workshop for the member project on information security management. Brad Prent led the workshop, which brought…
Dates security operations and architecture trainings
In 2019, ENCS will hold security operations and architecture trainings on the following dates: 16-17 May: Security architecture training 27-28 May:…
Aurélio Blanquet, EDP Distribuição elected as new ENCS Assembly Committee chair
In 2017, under the leadership of Director Aurélio Blanquet, EDP Distribuição joined the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS). Now, Mr. Blanquet…
ENCS member project on procuring secure equipment
ENCS is starting a member project on procuring secure equipment. The project has the goal to: Harmonize security requirements for procuring…
ENCS member project on information security management
ENCS is starting a member project on information security management. The project will run in the first half of 2019. The goal is to share knowledge…
EDP Distribuição hosts ENCS General Assembly in Lisbon
On 29th January 2019 in Lisbon, ENCS held her annual General Assembly to reflect on ENCS’ work in 2018 and look ahead to key industry changes and…
ENCS ends 2018 with three RTBT training programmes
2018 has been a landmark year for the ENCS training programme, with a packed calendar of industry-leading Red Team - Blue Team training throughout…
ENCS to speak at Smart Grid Forum’s Intrusion Detection event
On the 29th-31st January, ENCS will join Europe’s preeminent smart grid companies in Amsterdam for Smart Grid Forums’ Intrusion Detection event,…
ENCS and E.DSO launch first-ever set of security requirements for electric vehicle charging infrastructure
ENCS, the European Network for Cyber Security, and E.DSO, the European Distribution System Operators' Association for Smart Grids, have announced the…
Working at ENCS – Hamid Rahmouni
What is it like inside ENCS? We captured the experiences of one of our long-standing team members, Hamid Rahmouni, who shared insights into his…
ENCS launches security architecture training for smart grid cyber security
The European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) has launched a new training course that aims to give security architects the knowledge to design…
10th ENCS Roundtable in Lisbon
On 30 October, ENCS held its tenth roundtable event in Lisbon, hosted by EDP Distribuição. Started six years ago, the roundtable is an invite-only…
Taking cyber security leadership throughout the digital wave in energy
For utilities, the opportunities that the digital revolution has brought, go far and wide. But there are difficulties too. One of the main challenges…
Smart Grid Cyber Security: EDSO & ENCS EVENT
Making the tools of the energy transition safe for citizens and secure for providers. The tools are the data generated and needed by the smart grid…
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…
Third ENCS Security Operations Training Held
On 27 and 28 September, ENCS organized its third security operations training. The training teaches analysts how to manage vulnerabilities, and…
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.…
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…
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…
Working at ENCS – Ruben Meeuwissen
In our latest edition of “Working at ENCS”, we caught up with Ruben Meeuwissen to find out how he’s finding his current role. We always love to hear…
EVN rate Red Team/Blue Team
If you’re a regular follower of ENCS, no doubt you’ll have heard of our new Red Team/Blue Team (RTBT) training. It combines lecture learning with a…
ENCS and EDSO step up partnership to face emerging cybersecurity evolution and challenges in European smart grids
Building on two years of successful collaboration, this new step will boost technical excellence in the power distribution industry, promote…
innogy becomes the latest member of the European Network for Cyber Security
innogy, one of Europe’s leading energy companies, has joined the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS). As one of Europe’s preeminent energy…
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,…
Oesterreichs Energie engages ENCS for cyber security training programme
Today, the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) joins Oesterreichs Energie, the association of the Austrian electricity industry, in Saalfelden…
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…
Cyber security: it’s time to talk TSOs
Over the past few years, cyber security has quite rightly climbed the European energy sector agenda. European Union Commission President Jean-Claude…
TenneT joins the European Network for Cyber Security
TenneT, one of Europe’s leading transmission systems operators (TSOs) active in the Netherlands and Germany, has joined the European Network for…
ENCS Holiday Greeting
With the entire ENCS team we wish you very happy holidays and we are looking forward to working with you in the new year on our cyber security…
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…
New Red Team/Blue Team Training Re-enacts Cyber Attacks to Power Up Grid Cyber Security Training
The Hague, the Netherlands, 6th December 2017 – The European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) launched its new Red Team/Blue Team (RTBT) cyber…
OT Monitoring Training successful!
On November 9 & 10th, 2017 ENCS organized the OT Monitoring Training. This training is part of the OT Security Monitoring project. Monitoring the…
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…
Netbeheer Nederland joins ENCS
Netbeheer Nederland, the organisation for electricity and gas operators in the Netherlands, joined the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS)…
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…
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…
ENCS will be attending the EUTC Annual Conference in Lisboa (19-22 September 2017)
The Digital Utility is no longer part of the hype cycle! Today, utilities are needing to change to implement new regulations, improve customer…
What can you learn from an abandoned nuclear power plant?
The 692MW Zwentendorf plant in Austria holds the unlikely title of the world’s only fully constructed, commercial nuclear power station that has…
ENCS & ElaadNL team up to protect EV charging infrastructure
The Hague, The Netherlands – 25 July 2017 – The European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) and ElaadNL today signed a memorandum of understanding…
ENCS shows cyber security leadership in Europe
ENCS exists because we recognised that, as exciting as the transition to a cleaner, smarter European energy grid is, cyber security practices in the…
Cyber security in the energy industry: a skills gap within a skills gap…
...within a skills gap. It takes a lot to keep the European power grid cyber secure. Time, money, collaboration between industry players – but above…
Snitches get riches – could bug bounty programmes take off for smart grids?
Since Netscape introduced the first bug bounty in 1996, they’ve been a go-to tool across the tech industry, winning popularity with both the issuers…
Protecting Europe against cyber-attacks: ENCS & ENTSO-E join forces
The European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) and the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) today sign a…
Crash Override: what does the threat mean for utilities?
On the 12th of June Dragos and ESET released reports [1,2] and blog posts [3,4] about a malware that targets industrial control systems (ICS) with a…
ENCS at the ElaadNL lectures: Cyber security and EV charging infrastructure
On 29 May, ENCS’ Maarten Hoeve was on stage for a special edition of the Elaad lectures, hosted in collaboration with NKL. With electric vehicles…
ENCS member project: closing the gap in OT security monitoring
It’s almost unthinkable today that a company – especially a critical infrastructure company – would not monitor their IT systems from a cyber…
ENCS will be attending the 7th Smart Communications & Technologies Forum in Warsaw
On 8th June 2017 in Warsaw, the 7th Smart Communications & Technologies Forum will take place. Anjos Nijk & Michael John of ENCS will be…
WannaCry: Utilities not in tears but a clear warning for the power industry
If you were a technology journalist, you would have wanted to cry this week over how many WannaCry stories you would have had to write. The…
4th Cyber & SCADA Security for Utilities and Power Sector: 27 – 29 September 2017
ENCS is proud to announce being at the 4th Cyber & SCADA Security for Utilities and Power Sector 2017 on 27 – 29 September 2017, Amsterdam, The…
ENCS and ElaadNL collaborate on EV charging requirements and OCPP standard
There have been a lot of headlines linking cybersecurity and cars recently. The thought of driverless and connected cars being hacked pricks our…
Keeping your organisation secure in 2017 – 5 steps to counter threats
Last week, I was in London, presenting at SMI’s European Smart Grid Cyber Security conference. It was great. I love seeing so many intelligent people…
Kärnten Netz GmbH procures secure smart meters using ENCS’ cybersecurity expertise!
Kärnten Netz GmbH, an Austrian electricity distribution company operating in the Carinthian region, has successfully procured 300,000 smart meters…
Annual General Assembly meeting a success!
On February 7th 2017 ENCS held its annual General Assembly meeting in Amsterdam, assessing progress in 2016 and looking forward to the year ahead.…
Successful Red Team – Blue Team Training at E.ON
ENCS has successfully completed the first Red Team Blue Team Training this year. E.ON participants coming from across Europe were trained to mitigate…
ENTSO-E participants trained to better defend the critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks
ENCS has successfully finished yet another Red Team Blue Team Training. This time, ENTSO-E participants coming from across Europe were successfully…