Deloitte’s Imagining Tomorrow webinar series explores the key issues, risks, challenges and opportunities within the Power, Utilities & Renewables sector as it continues its transformation journey. Cutting across several themes such as the future of energy, transformation through technology, sustainability, climate and equity, operational excellence and resiliency, modern work and workforce transition, growth and competitive advantage, and regulation, security and risk, our sector experts are joined by industry leaders to deep dive into the most pressing business issues that are driving a more sustainable energy transition.
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Critical infrastructure has long been dependent on operational technology (OT) to manage and operate processes across key industries like energy, water and manufacturing, and the resilience of these processes is essential to a safe and stable economy.
Cyber has become a demonstrable threat to system resilience and many cyber guidelines advocate active management and change (e.g. patching) in response to this volatile threat. However recent events have illustrated how sudden change can have unintended consequences (e.g. Blue Screen of Death in control rooms), which raises concerns when aged platforms are often intolerant of rapid change.
As we embrace the future many of these industries have a growing landscape of distributed technology given the growth of smarter devices (e.g. field sensors), renewable energy assets (e.g. wind farms) and consumer energy devices (e.g. EV chargers, batteries, solar inverters), and a growing dependency on external data such as weather to make operational decisions.
In this new era few organisations can rely on the historical approach of total isolation, especially given how operational efficiency and capabilities such as AI inherently need connectivity. This creates a nuanced and dynamic risk position to manage.
In this webinar, industry leaders who are actively addressing these challenges shared their experiences and strategies for resilience. We explored this issue from multiple angles: architectural approaches, business continuity planning, leadership roles, and the importance of scenario planning to set priorities.
Webinar panellists:
Andrew Webster, Chief Information Security Officer, BlueScope Steel
Brad Flanagan, Head of Digital Operations and Security, Essential Energy.
David Owen, Cyber Leader Energy, Resources & Industrials, Deloitte Australia
Cayley Wright, Cyber Director, Energy, Resources & Industrials, Deloitte Australia
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