2020's COVID Accelerated Digitalization Demands ...
The digital revolution in the energy sector comes with huge benefits and brings new challenges for cybersecurity. As energy companies digitally connect operational technologies such as gas compressors, electricity substations, and electric vehicle (EV) chargers with information technology (IT) systems to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and cut emissions, they simultaneously become more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Energy companies are expected to connect 2.5 billion industrial devices in the next two years — and each new digital node represents an opportunity for attackers to disrupt power...
Source: darkreading.com