{"id":209073,"date":"2026-02-02T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/a-growing-sense-of-threat-in-eu-cybersecurity-act-review\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:00:09","slug":"a-growing-sense-of-threat-in-eu-cybersecurity-act-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/a-growing-sense-of-threat-in-eu-cybersecurity-act-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A growing sense of threat’ in EU cybersecurity act review"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘A growing sense of threat’ in EU cybersecurity act review<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/eu-cybersecurity-act-solar-energy-security-threat\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-02 06:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.pv-tech.org<\/a><\/p>\n

We spoke to cybersecurity experts about what the bill will do, and what it has proposed.<\/p>\n

\u2018A growing sense of risk\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The CSA proposal outlined plans to identify \u201chigh-risk\u201d countries and high-risk suppliers and exclude them from critical EU digital supply chains. The model comes largely from its existing restrictions on 5G networks, where it has restricted Huawei\u2019s access, as well as efforts to address supply dependencies on single countries or suppliers, which for renewable energy will mostly mean China. \u201cThe EU\u2019s risk mitigation logic in 5G is the right mindset to replicate in renewable connectivity architectures,\u201d says Rafael Narezzi, CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Cyber Energia.<\/p>\n

Uri Sadot, founder of SolarDefend and chairman of SolarPower Europe\u2019s digitalisation workstream,\u00a0 expects the revised cybersecurity act to \u201chave teeth\u201d.<\/p>\n

Europe is on a new security footing, with military and defence spending increasing in the face of heightened geopolitical tensions and a push for self-reliance. \u201cThere\u2019s a growing sense of risk, there\u2019s a growing sense of threat and there\u2019s an impressive level of expertise within the Commission to understand this paradigm shift from centralised power generation to decentralised,\u201d Sadot says. He is part of the technical risk assessment group currently working to develop recommendations for the CSA\u2019s measures on energy.<\/p>\n

The CSA proposal references solar inverters, where it warns that \u201ckill switches could be used to negatively impact the availability of communication networks and electricity grids\u201d \u2013 a reference to a Reuters story from this year. This shows meaningful intent, Sadot suggests, as do the aggressive timelines for implementation that the Commission set out.<\/p>\n

Existing infrastructure<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The ongoing risk assessment process has to decide what to do about solar infrastructure already deployed in Europe that carries cybersecurity risks. Inverters are the key…<\/p>\n

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