STATEMENT BY SMA SOLAR TECHNOLOGY AG ON THE CYBER SECURITY OF PV INVERTERS (HORUS SCENARIO)

In a presentation at the SHA2017 security conference and on a separate website https://www.horusscenario.com, the Dutch security engineer Willem Westerhof has described the scenario of a Europe-wide blackout. This scenario is based on a hypothetical, large-scale cyberattack on inverters in PV systems. He supports this scenario with a vulnerability analysis of two SMA solar inverters of the same model developed eight years ago. The analysis was conducted for a thesis together with the Dutch security company ITSec.

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whitePaper | March 14, 2023

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whitePaper | September 29, 2022

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