LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

While the world depends on the unimpaired generation and transmission of electrical power, the systems controlling the critical services stay – from a security point of view – often in the shadows. Many assumptions of the past – especially in times of fast redispatch – need to be challenged, and the communication systems have to be monitored more closely. You will learn from real world cases and successful attacks the necessity of looking deeper into the communication of every system to system of systems, from substations up to the control room. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is supporting the usage of the Open-source Framework Malcolm in several ways, and this talk will show you the benefits by adopting it.