March 4th, 2025: IPTO hosted the annual ENCS General Assembly meeting in Athens, where Nikos Raftopoulos, CIO of IPTO and Vice Chair ENTSO-E ICT Committee, was appointed as member of the ENCS Assembly Committee. The ENCS member community continued to expand in 2024 with multiple TSOs joining and the expert community growing through newly established relationships with World Bank and NATO grid security experts. ENCS was selected as member of the EC Smart Energy Expert Groep (SEEG) Steering Committee. The ENCS General Assembly appointed Anjos Nijk and Maarten Hoeve for a next term of five years as ENCS Managing Directors.
In 2024 ENCS upgraded its security requirements for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, participated in RED and CRA standardisation, ran a testing program of OT IDS systems and organised 42 information and knowledge sharing events (for more see: https://encs.eu/news/new-encs-content-published-in-2024/ ). Besides advancing the 2024 work, ENCS security programs’ priorities for 2025 include working on how to mitigate consumer devices cybersecurity risks, supply chain security best practices, developing OT security training for NIS-2 compliancy and expanding info sharing of SOC teams.
Nikos Raftopoulos, stated: “Hosting the ENCS General Assembly in Athens highlights the strategic importance of collective cybersecurity resilience in Europe’s power grid. As the threat landscape evolves, ensuring robust OT and IT security for critical infrastructures is imperative, with a strong focus on compliance with NIS-2 and the Network Code on Cyber Security. Addressing key challenges such as OT threat detection, secure data transmission and the cybersecurity of Substations, High-Voltage Substations (HVS) and submarine power cables is essential to safeguarding grid operations. Through ENCS, we reinforce our cybersecurity posture while advancing collaborative defense strategies that strengthen the entire energy sector.”
“The continuous growth of ENCS and the strengthening of our expert community demonstrate the increasing importance of cybersecurity in the energy sector. The reappointment of our management team for another term is a recognition of the important impact they have made. This continuity allows us to further advance security standards and collaboration across the industry. I also warmly welcome Nikos Raftopoulos to ENCS AC and look forward to working together to address the challenges ahead”, said Gennaro Fiorenza, ENCS Assembly Committee Chair.
