Strategic Intelligence: Cybersecurity in Energy

Energy infrastructure is a high-value target for cybercriminals. Attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) can have an outsized impact, disrupting essential services, causing nationwide instability, and generating financial gain for hackers.

Energy resources are attractive targets for hackers

Energy infrastructure is a high-value target for cybercriminals.
Attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) can have an outsized impact, disrupting essential services, causing nationwide instability, and generating financial gain for hackers. As geopolitical uncertainty intensifies, so does cyber espionage, making it crucial for energy companies to invest in resilient cybersecurity programs.

Digitalization and AI are exacerbating attacks

Digitization and information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) convergence are connecting legacy assets and modern grid technologies, expanding entry points where IT compromises can disrupt operations. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) further increases attacker speed and sophistication, shrinking defenders’ response windows.

Third-party vendors pose a key cybersecurity risk

Energy companies depend on extensive third-party ecosystems, making supplier vulnerabilities a major cyber risk that can spread into IT and OT environments. Attacks exploiting shared vendor software (e.g., file-transfer tools) have hit major players. Mitigation requires stronger vendor governance, such as continuous monitoring, standards, segmentation, least privilege, audits, and joint incident response

The report covers how cybersecurity impacts key challenges in the energy industry. These include digitalization, DERs and grid modernization, supply chains and third-party vendors, geopolitics

Scope

• This report provides an overview of cybersecurity and how it will impact the energy industry.
• The report predicts how cybersecurity in energy will evolve, including the key challenges it will solve.
• It includes selected case studies highlighting who is innovating in energy using cybersecurity technologies.

Reasons to Buy

• The analyst’s thematic research ecosystem is a single, integrated global research platform that provides an easy-to-use framework for tracking all themes across all companies in all sectors.
• This report is essential for senior executives at energy companies to understand the benefits of integrating cybersecurity technology into their operations.
• In addition, the report identifies the leading cybersecurity adopters in energy, as well as specialist tech vendors in this space.