NIST seeks comment on industrial Internet of Things security publication for energy sector

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published draft guide outlining lessons learned from a recent project to develop approaches for protecting industrial Internet of Things devices used at the edge of the energy grid.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence project focuses on “use of small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs)” and addresses how the expansion of DERs is making the energy distribution grid “a multisource grid of interconnected devices and systems driven by two-way data communication and power...