Many areas of energy systems are exposed to damage originated in cyberspace, and include energy mining and production centers, logistics or trading platforms, transport infrastructures of primary resources, such as oil, gas and coal, or processed electricity, such as smart grids, processing units, such as for uranium, consumption meters, such as smart metering, control systems, such as drones and e-mobility environments, including electric cars.
Obviously, the stakes go well beyond ensuring the security of supply, and also the potential damaging of key infrastructures, market impacts, the theft of data and other dormant risks. This interaction of risk issues between cyberspace and energy is in fact the umbrella under which effective cyber security should be designed for such critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity, just like Energy and Telecommunications are cross-border topics and therefore require exchange and cooperation between the national level and the international level, as well as cross-industries. This interaction is a prerequisite for safe and sustainable economic development.
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