In today’s increasingly digitalized and electrified society specifically focusing on the green transition, electricity availability and grid reliability are two key factors. To ensure this, many power grids are being digitalized to improve operational efficiency and integrate a variety of renewable energy sources.

However, while this digitalization offers a range of benefits, it also poses a significant threat within cyberattacks. As more grids, devices, networks, and systems become intertwined, the risk of cyberattacks increases exponentially. Today, such cyberattacks can also emerge in the physical layer, such as high-power electromagnetic attacks, which can cause both immense proprietary and physical damage and trigger system blackouts in a few milliseconds, potentially incurring socio-economic repercussions costing billions of dollars.

To combat this unsolved threat, there’s a need for innovative cybersecurity systems with domain knowledge of both the power electronics and control systems to provide constant protection.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CYBER SECURITY AND ENERGY SYSTEMS

Power Sentinel is the world’s first non-invasive safeguard shield device for the power and energy sector providing full-proof protection of energy sources from cyber-physical threats arising out of the increased digitalization.

Today, most cybersecurity solutions are limited only to defending the communication layer, e.g. firewall protection and antivirus. But, if the communication layer security is breached, the control layer can be attacked as well – something that may easily go unnoticed and, thus, create a big security gap.

Power Sentinel solves this problem, as the device unifies both layers via an innovative event-driven signal filtering technology able to detect the attacked components of the layer and remove them from the system immediately.

The device provides an easy plug and play installation into power electronic converters while it significantly:

➡ Reduces resources and sharing of critical data by 40%
➡ Improves response time - 3 times faster
➡ Reduces design time by 5 times

Power Sentinel not only protects but also repairs the control layer by providing immediate recovery during cyberattacks by injecting reconstructed electrical measurements from its output.