As the war in Ukraine rages on and Russia pounds Ukraine’s energy facilities, Europe’s renewable energy sector is increasingly vulnerable to hybrid warfare.
In Jönköping, NATO has set up an exercise training participants to deter, prepare and react to hybrid cyber security threats to renewable energy sources. Under the Nordic Pine Hybrid Threats to Renewable Energy Systems programme, participants from the public and private sectors, as well as research institutions, are given fictitious scenarios and consider how best to react over three hours.
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Source: Euronews
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