Building cyber-resilient grids: Ensuring NIS2 compliance for energy suppliers

For energy suppliers, cybersecurity is essential to ensuring the stability and integrity of their operations. One key challenge is meeting the requirements of NIS2 while maintaining the availability and integrity of critical infrastructure. 

In this blog post, we explore how cyber-resilient networks and innovative technologies can help you achieve NIS2 compliance for your IT/OT infrastructure, thereby enhancing both the security and efficiency of your energy supply systems. For certain operators in the energy sector, compliance may be guided by the EnWG and the BNetzA’s security catalog, which are designed to meet NIS2 standards equivalently.

• Protection of mission-critical data: Robust encryption in conjunction with integrity protection ensures the reliable functioning of operational processes.
• Future-proof infrastructure: The protected hosting of software-based network and security functions at network access points enables rapid responses to changing threat scenarios.
• Precise timing: Automation processes require highly accurate time distribution, for example for the synchronization of time-critical processes or data replication in the cloud.
• Resilient and secure operation: Attacks on the IT and OT network must be detected and contained quickly during operation to prevent disruption to business continuity.

Solutions for a secure future

Adva Network Security offers innovative technologies to protect utilities from both current and future threats. Solutions include:

• Quantum secure optical transmission: Our ConnectGuard™ security technology comprehensively protects fiber optic networks, safeguarding the transport of classified data.
• Protected network access with edge hosting: Tamper-proof network access technology with protected hosting enables flexible functional expansion at the click of a mouse.
• Real-time fiber monitoring: The system promptly detects faults and potential interception attempts, facilitating quick repairs.
• Synchronization solutions: Our solutions ensure reliable and precise timing information, independent of GNSS receivers, which are vulnerable to jamming and interference.
• SOC services: We provide round-the-clock monitoring of network and security functions, along with comprehensive pentesting across the infrastructure to ensure robust security.

NIS2 compliance through advanced technology

By leveraging modern technologies like quantum-safe encryption, SOC services, pentesting and secure time synchronization, energy suppliers can achieve NIS2 compliance and safeguard critical infrastructures from cyberattacks. These solutions not only secure your systems but also ensure a stable and reliable energy supply, positioning your organization for a more resilient future.

Meet us at E-World 2025

Visit us at E-World in Essen from February 11 to 13, 2025, at stand GA-36. Our experts will be on hand to demonstrate how our comprehensive suite of innovative solutions can support you in achieving NIS2 compliance.