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Activity title:
Nordic Pine 2025: hybrid threats to renewable energy systems
Activity Reference:
SAS-198
Panel:
SAS
Security Classification:
NATO UNCLASSIFIED
Status:
Proposed
Activity type:
RTC
Start date:
2024-10-01T00:00:00Z
Actual End date:
2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
Keywords:
Capabilities, Cyber defense, Energy security, Hybrid Warfare
Background:
The idea of this course follows after a series of TTXs (Tabletop Exercise) hosted in Sweden and Finland focused on hybrid threats to renewable energy systems. These has been planned since 2020 as one of several TTX’s within NATO STO SAS-163. The first execution of the exercise was in September 2022 in Sweden. These efforts became a yearly STO Research Technical Course in 2023 through the cooperation between Swedish Total Defence Foundation and the members of NATO STO SAS-163, and further developed by RISE and Naval Postgraduate School.
Objectives:
The overall objective for the course is to organize one multi-day course at three different sites transferring practical knowledge and recent field developments through on-site instructor training or lectures to military decision makers. Renewable energy systems are becoming a growing part of the energy mix in more and more countries around the world. Traditional energy systems based on fossil and nuclear sources are based in mature and well analysed systems of governmental control, security analysis and experience and is well protected against adversaries. Another objective is to further cooperation between primarily Finland and Sweden but also other Nordic/Baltic NATO-countries (Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). The training objectives are to exercise hybrid incidents towards renewable energy systems within the areas of Cyber / Supply chain / Malign influence.
Topics:
Cyber threats – Cyber security
• Cyberattack towards SCADA-systems
• Malware in ERP-systems
• Insiders
• Combinations of natural disaster and hacker attacks
• Combined cyber-attacks and physical/kinetic sabotage
Supply chain risks
• Sabotage/disruptive attacks on fuel supply, supply routes, critical infrastructure, telecommunications
• IoT aspects/impact to power consumption/distribution in relation to grid balancing. What does internet connected devices (such as EV chargers etc.) mean to the stability of the grid?
• Command, control and communication, interdependencies in the energy system as a whole (central, regional, local) or between different sources of energy
• Perturbations causing delays or disruptions in the transport system leading to lack of critical goods and material
• Lack of fuel, gas, crude oil, forest
• Supply of critical material, components, equipment, chemicals, vehicles etc.
Malign influence
• Misinformation, influence operations and deception
• False information causing social unrest
• Malign influence operations with purpose of smearing and degrading a certain renewable energy source e.g., maritime wind power
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