Solar generation has been around for a very long time. However, until recently, it always made up a very small percentage of global power generation. As a result, solar generation was never really considered critical infrastructure. Today, however, that dynamic is...
Emerson’s Nick Janouskovec presented NERC CIP-015-1 Internal Network Security Monitoring and Power and Water Cyber Security Network Security Monitoring at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference.
A recent Forbes article,7 Steps Utilities Must Take To Protect Critical Facilities From Cyber Attacks highlights focus areas for manufacturers and producers to strengthen their operational resilience.
Few people still working in the industry today likely remember the earliest solar production facilities, which operated more like traditional generation plants than their modern counterparts. Unlike those old sites, using solar collectors to produce steam and turn...
The power industry is perhaps the furthest along in hardening their cybersecurity defenses due to the work of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) on the critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity standards—now at version 6. In a...
EnergySec is a consortium with the mission, "…to support energy sector organizations with the security of their critical technology infrastructures." Their EnergySec Summit 2017 is happening this week. The focus of this conference is: Defining and developing...
For readers based in the U.K. or with travel plans that brings you there next week, I wanted to highlight an Emerson Power Generation Seminar & Technology Fair taking place next week. The first session will be October 22 in Glasgow and the second one will be...
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