2027 Event Agenda

With the spillover of cyberattacks from the conflict in Ukraine and the increasing threat vectors from DERs, cybersecurity has become a critical consideration in resilience planning. As DERs proliferate across the grid edge, utilities must develop cybersecurity strategies that account for both the IT and operational technology environments that support distribution systems and the DERs connected to them.

This session brings together Duke Energy and Idaho National Laboratory to discuss strategies and frameworks for implementing cybersecurity strategy for distribution and distribution-tied DERs. Panelists will share how utilities are developing and operationalizing cybersecurity policy for grid-edge resources, where existing frameworks fall short of the emerging threat landscape, and what coordination between utilities and national labs is revealing about the most pressing vulnerabilities and the most promising mitigations. 

Attendees will leave with a clearer picture of how to integrate cybersecurity into resilience planning in a way that keeps pace with both the evolving DER deployment environment and the increasingly sophisticated threat actors targeting it.