Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
TL;DR
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators," Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), told me last year.
Nauti's Take
For small teams, the first test is basic and decisive: Which accounts, remote access points, and integrations control critical operations, and are they protected by MFA, least-privilege access, and an offline fallback? Connect AI automation to those systems only after these controls have been verified.
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