IT Security for Energy

Computerised control systems play a crucial role in managing energy production and distribution. Others are vital to automating safeguards and overrides that prevent power spikes or serious industrial accidents.

Energy networks are part of the critical national infrastructure – and an obvious point of attack in any cyberwarfare scenario. With online monitoring and IoT playing an increasingly important role in keeping electricity grids and utilities running, hackers have a range of attack surfaces with which to work.

Fidus work with key players in the energy industry to ensure they have the correct IT security controls in place – and to help them identify potential weaknesses that need to be addressed before they are exploited. We provide:

• Penetration testing – confirming that firewalls and other access control systems are properly secured against unauthorised ingress.
• OS-level access control audits – ensuring that user names, passwords and digital tokens are protected against loss, theft or misuse.
• Physical security checks – is your premises perimeter properly secured? Could a trespasser access key infrastructure or IT assets?
• Social engineering testing – are staff properly trained to identify and respond to human-to-human attempts at compromising security.
• Red Team simulations – a full-scale cyberattack using multiple hacking techniques and tools to assess your readiness and response to a major security incident.

Our highly skilled, fully qualified security consultants will show you what hackers know – and the very real risks they pose to your systems.