The Cybersecurity and Digitalization webinar series is a two part training launched in June 2020 to educate utilities on cyber standards, trends, and best practices. The first 15-webinar training 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 were the foundation for the Business Innovation Partnership (BIP) that convened 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.
Energetics Incorporated under the guidance of USEA and USAID, developed an Electricity Sector Cybersecurity and Digitalization Handbook based on the Cybersecurity and Digitalization webinar series.
This Electricity Sector Cybersecurity and Digitalization Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and risks that power sector utilities face. Click here to view the handbook.
The second phase of cybersecurity training began in December 2023 and focuses on supply chain cybersecurity. This ten-part series is aimed at giving USAID partner-country utilities, policy-makers, and regulators a clear panorama of the relevance of cybersecurity within the electricity sector, including how to mitigate supply chain risks and monitor third-party vendor access. To register for the latest webinar, click here.
Regional Partnership:
May 9th, 2024
This webinar focuses on the remaining lifecycle of the operation of critical IT and OT systems in a utility. Whereas the previous webinar focused on preparing for procurement and conducting...
April 11th, 2024
As utilities rapidly expand electric grids and prepare for transitions from centralized to distributed grids and creating new interconnections, consideration of cybersecurity requirements is...
March 21st, 2024
This webinar focuses on developing and maintaining organizational cybersecurity governance and the best practices on policies and procedures to address supply chain risk management. The webinar will...
March 7th, 2024
An incident response plan (IRP) is an essential tool for utilities to prepare for an event and can help drive the utility’s overall cybersecurity activities. This webinar will discuss how utilities...
February 22nd, 2024
Defensible architecture is the way that the utility should approach organizing their network, both enterprise and operational. Asset management supports this effort by maintaining insight into the...
January 25th, 2024
This webinar focused on the risk management practices for supply-chain related cybersecurity risks including considerations for supply chain vulnerability management and equipment country-of-origin...
January 11th, 2024
In a world of increasing global cybersecurity threats, organizations need to understand the nature of the threats, as well as to recognize the role that organizations play in end-to-end supply chain...
December 14th, 2023
In a world of increasing global cybersecurity threats, organizations need to understand the nature of the threats, as well as to recognize the role that organizations play in end-to-end supply chain...
October 19th, 2021
As energy systems continue to advance technologically, they have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In response to this threat, USEA partnered with USAID to share some key tools and...