Background Information: Grid security for intelligent power supply networks

The highest priority for operators of critical infrastructure, including electrical power supply grids, is to ensure a reliable, secure, and cost-efficient energy supply. New challenges have fundamentally changed the nature of how power grids are operated today. These challenges include the integration of renewable and decentralized energy sources, the need for continuous network optimization, and the inclusion of increasing numbers of consumers who are electricity producers. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly pervading the grids, and the growing number of interfaces is generating new security risks for our power supply grids. Grid security has become one of the biggest and most important challenges for energy supply companies.