The UK's energy sector shows the most concern about the risk of cyber attacks on power generation and grid infrastructure, according to Steve Holliday, the former CEO of National Grid. The Capita-run body set up to handle the data, the DCC, is being treated as critical national infrastructure and the company’s chief technology officer Holliday told The Guardian that perceived threats were coming to the fore as the country has stopped relying on large centralised power stations and started deploying smaller gas-fired plants and home-generation technologies, such as solar panels. "The threat is not just from cyber-attacks," he said.
The UK's energy sector shows the most concern about the risk of cyber attacks on power generation and grid infrastructure, according to Steve Holliday, the former CEO of National Grid. Holliday told The Guardian that perceived threats were coming to the fore as the country has stopped relying on large centralised power stations and started deploying smaller gas-fired plants and home-generation technologies, such as solar panels. "The threat is not just from cyber-attacks," he said.