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United States : Invenergy selects GE Renewable Energy to Provide Cyber Security for Entire Fleet
Publish Date : 29-May-2017
GE Renewable Energy today announced it has signed a cybersecurity agreement with Invenergy, North Americas largest independent, privately held clean energy provider, to secure their entire fleet of wind turbines, as well as a framework to add future wind farms to the network. Worth more than $13M over ten years, this is one of the largest cybersecurity deals in the history of the Industrial Internet.
Wurldtech, a GE Company, is focused on cybersecurity and protecting operational technology in addition to information technology. This agreement includes upgrading Invenergys legacy controls, up-grading and protecting their network security with Wurldtechs Opshield, a cutting-edge purpose-built security solution for industrial and process control environments; and finally, GE and Wurldtech will provide Invenergy with software maintenance, updates, and patches for the duration of the ten-year term.
As online threats multiply and the electric grid goes digital, cyber security is a top priority for Invenergy, said Jim Shield, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Invenergy. We are proud of our collaboration with the GE Digital team to develop a long-term, enterprise-wide cyber security agreement that met our operational needs.
This took a huge effort from our teams across all functions to get the deal across the line, said Sanjeev Addala, Chief Digital Officer at GE Renewable Energy. We are looking forward to building on the success of supporting Invenergys fleet under contract and expanding it to other wind fleets. Its very exciting to work with one of our best customers, Invenergy, on their digital transformation!
We offer a comprehensive Cyber Security package engineered specifically for Wind Farms Wind SCADA Secure Edition. This collection of technologies are integrated to build or enhance our customers Operational Technology (OT) cyber posture in the wind plants internal and external environment.
