About Workshop

Securing the Grid: Cyber Hardware Testing for Green Energy Systems

Green-energy products – such as inverters, grid-tied controllers, EV chargers, and field gateways – ship with complex hardware and wireless stacks, but frequently lack rigorous hardware-level security testing. This hands-on workshop demonstrates how overlooked hardware vulnerabilities (PCB design flaws, unprotected debug ports, insecure bus protocols, weak firmware, and wireless weaknesses) can be chained to compromise entire energy ecosystems.

Participants will learn practical hardware penetration techniques – including reverse engineering, bus exploitation, firmware analysis, fault injection, and wireless attacks – and how to translate findings into actionable mitigations and security test requirements aligned with IEC 62443 principles.