Electricity grids increasingly rely on digital control systems such as SCADA and industrial control systems (ICS). Cyberattacks targeting these systems can manipulate grid operations, disable substations, overload networks, or force emergency shutdowns. Attacks may originate through malware, ransomware, compromised software updates, hijacked remote maintenance access, or manipulation of smart meters. Even without physical damage, digital attacks alone can result in prolonged power disruptions.
Burnstone’s adaptive RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) levelswork at two levels at one. For the system as a whole it can anticipate systemic contamination, dynamically harden, isolate and compartmentalize systemic threats, while rerouting other resource flows to continue operations. For the system under attack, even if a distributed infrastructure,Burnstone’s multi-process instruction-level parallelismallows for simultaneous countermeasures that can be coordinated to maximize effectivity.
