Australia’s energy and climate ministers are driving cybersecurity authentication standards to protect consumer energy resources such as household solar, batteries and electric vehicles from cyber threats.
Working groups under the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council (ECMC) will establish a new national entity in charge of authenticating communication with internet connected energy technologies, such as remote attempts to switch devices on or off.
Electricity transmission industry body Energy Networks Australia, which has already progressed work on a nationally consistent public key infrastructure (PKI) authentication technology, will co-lead the project.
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