Insights
Regulatory analysis, threat advisories and commentary for the energy sector.
Adapting to the reality of supply chains in the new world order
Indeed these are troubling times for those who are closely involved in cyber defence of electricity systems around the world.
Read →The SOCI Act: likely changes that you should know about
Australia's Department of Home Affairs has opened a consultation on enhanced CIRMP Rules (Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Plans).
Read →The Defender's Terrain
The AI and cybersecurity debate has settled into a comfortable but misleading equilibrium. Both camps miss the structural asymmetries AI amplifies.
Read →The Compliance Reckoning
Home Affairs has opened consultation on enhanced CIRMP Rules. The most significant tightening of critical infrastructure obligations since SOCI was enacted.
Read →The Quiet Invasion
Russian operatives probed Poland’s grid through its distributed renewables, not its transmission lines. The clean energy transition has redrawn the attack surface.
Read →Global cyber authorities release first unified guidance for AI in OT
Recently, a coalition of international cyber security agencies released comprehensive guidance on how to safely integrate AI into OT environments.
Read →New security flaw could permanently disable electric vehicle chargers, researchers warn
A team of researchers has unveiled PIBuster, a novel vulnerability affecting electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.
Read →What Anthropic discovered in the first AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
In November 2025, Anthropic released a detailed report on the first documented case of AI-driven cyberattacks at scale.
Read →What caused the AWS outage, and what can we take away from it?
On the 20th of October, AWS experienced an outage stemming from its US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region, creating a global cascading effect on services using this data cluster.
Read →Why SBOM's keep us secure, and should be mandated
Transparency allows us to become more secure, and part of the CAPA process is standardising the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) document.
Read →CER Task Force and Cybersecurity
In August and September, the CER Task Force has published a number of documents that pertain to cybersecurity for the DER sector in Australia.
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