The 15-part Cybersecurity and Digitalization webinar series was launched in June 2020 to educate utilities on cyber standards, trends, and best practices. The series reached over 4,200 participants from 70 utilities in 68 different countries. Following the success of the webinar series, USEA and USAID hosted industry panels with leading cybersecurity experts to discuss the latest cybersecurity trends, tools, and technologies.

The webinar series and panels will be the foundation for the Business Innovation Partnership (BIP) that will convene a global network of utility thought leaders to assist USAID-partner utilities to navigate some of the most pressing challenges within a rapidly changing industry.

1. Strategies for Intelligence Integration: Connections Between Digitalization and Cybersecurity

2. Building Blocks to Support Cybersecurity in the Power Sector

3. Utility Digitalization Progress and Digitalization Strategies and Roadmaps

4. Cybersecurity and Distributed Energy Resources

5. The Corporate Culture and Importance of Cyber Hygiene

6. Introduction to the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2)

7. Forging a Cybersecurity Defense for Utilities

8. Cybersecurity Standards and Best Practices: Part 1 - US Standards

9. Cybersecurity Standards and Best practices: Part 2 - Utilities and ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS 2005/2013

10. Utility Data Protection Policies and Practices

11. The Importance of Supply Chain Security

12. Industrial Control System (ICS) and SCADA: Risks and Solutions

13. The Relationship Between Regulators and Power Utilities: Evaluating the Prudency of Cybersecurity Investments

14. Key Elements of Trusted Collaboration and Information Sharing

15. Communication Strategies for Before, During and After Cyber Attacks

Industry Panels

16. Cybersecurity and Digitalization Industry Panel: Energy Sector Cyber Threats, Intrusion Detection & Testing

17. Cybersecurity and Digitalization Industry Panel: Cyber Risk Management Through Measurement