Home Blog Articles Case Study: Cyber Resilience for Energy Company Cuerva

Case Study: Cyber Resilience for Energy Company Cuerva

A leading Spanish-based Energy Company Cuerva is leveraging edge computing to digitize and optimize its operations to improve service delivery and foster the development of new energy models. This digital transformation also exposes them to cyber threats that could compromise their operations, data integrity and the reliability of energy supply to its customers.

April 16, 2024

Cybersecurity Challenges Across Renewable Infrastructure

With a diverse array of operations spanning hydroelectric plants, photovoltaic solar plants, wind farms, and an expansive electric power distribution network, they faced difficult multifaceted cybersecurity threats. These threats range from attacks on its energy production facilities to risks within its digital and IoT platforms. Cuerva required a cybersecurity solution that is both effective and non-intrusive, ensuring maximum protection without compromising the efficiency or sustainability of its operations.

EdgeLabs: Empowering Energy Cybersecurity

AI EdgeLabs is designed to meet the Cuerva’s cybersecurity needs through its multifaceted approach, combining the Behavioral Activity Monitoring & Protect (modern eBPF) for monitoring of system calls, machine learning models for behavior analysis, network headers analysis for detecting a variety of attacks, and Yara signatures for identifying Linux-based malware and ransomware.

The challenges facing the company were:

Resource Constraints: Devices operated with limited memory and CPU capacity.
Real-time Response: A cybersecurity framework that could swiftly detect and respond to threats locally, independent of cloud connectivity.
Complex Threat Landscape: The solution must effectively counter a broad spectrum of advanced cyber threats, including IPS, IDS, EDR, and NDR capabilities.
Bandwidth constraints: The EPUs are connected via a 5G connection with an average of 300 MB per month of bandwidth that could be allocated to supporting a cybersecurity solution. If the 300MB are used, then the devices will be cut until the next billing cycle hits.

Implementation

In response to these challenges, Cuerva collaborated with AI Edgelabs to build a comprehensive security for their dispersed infrastructure.

As a result, they got more than expected:

Lightweight Deployment: AI EdgeLabs' cybersecurity agents consume only up to 300Mb of memory and 5% CPU usage.
Autonomous Operation: ensuring continuous cybersecurity protection even without constant cloud connection, vital for safeguarding facilities in remote or challenging environments.
Edge Processing: AI EdgeLabs uses edge computing for data preprocessing, machine learning model inference, and response locally, reducing reliance on constant cloud connectivity.
Rapid and Easy Deployment: swift and effortless deployment of cybersecurity agents across Cuerva's diverse infrastructure, spanning wind farms to power distribution networks, with minimal configuration or maintenance needs.
Minimizing Bandwidth Usage: AI EdgeLabs' solution uses only up to 300Mb of network traffic per month, that is ensuring efficient operations for distributed renewable energy and digitization projects.

AI EdgeLabs has integrated via the Barbara platform, simplifying the activation process and integrating edge-local NDR/EDR. Deployments can be effortlessly managed from the central portal on the Barbara platform, encompassing all deployment and maintenance cycles for the Edge Security product suite.

Figure 1. The deployment scheme of AI EdgeLabs agents in Cuerva`s dispersed infrastructure

Benefits

- high defense against cyber threats while keeping operations smooth and sustainable

- lightweight footprint ensures that Cuerva’s energy production and distribution infrastructure operates at optimal efficiency, aligning with its sustainability goals.

- enabling real-time on-site data processing, threat detection and response aligns with the company’s digitalization strategy

As a result, Cuerva boosted security for its renewable energy infrastructure and digital transformation initiatives with AI EdgeLabs' cybersecurity solution.

Want to have the same success in securing your infrastructure? Get a demo of AI EdgeLabs right now.

Get a demo

Articles

First Name *

Last Name *

Company Name *

Job Title *

Your business email *

Your phone number *

Protect your Edge
and IoT environment

Envisioned, developed,
and powered by

Scalarr has been on a mission to be the go-to solution for cybersecurity
since 2016. Its AI-powered solutions are recognized as the most
advanced and accurate for early and effective threat detection,
protection, and remediation.

More About Us

We Stand with Ukraine

First Name *

Last Name *

Your business email *

Message *

By submitting a form via this website, you consent that your contact can be used for the purpose of contacting you, responding to your query or directing you to the appropriate person within our company.

Cookie Policy

Terms and Conditions