NEWS FROM DER SECURITY

February 17, 2026. Nozomi Networks Inc., the leader in OT, IoT and CPS security, and DER Security Corp (DERSec), today announced they have integrated technologies to address cyber-physical threats to distributed energy resources, including battery energy systems, solar energy equipment, electric vehicle chargers, and microgrid controllers. See the news release here.

February 3, 2026. DER Security will be in the Claroty booth at Distributech from February 3-5. Please come by and see how DERSec and the Claroty platform work together.

May 15, 2025. Announcing volume 2 of Public History of Solar Cyber Attacks and Vulnerabilities. Since volume 1 was published in November 2024, DERSec has cataloged 50 new CVE vulnerabilities.  According to the disclosures, these vulnerabilities exposed ~45% of the world-wide solar generation (>1 TW) to cyber exploitation.

November 18, 2024. As solar energy systems become more numerous and reliant on digital technology, they become more critical and vulnerable to cyberattacks. Through an analysis of 50 vulnerability reports and four cyber attacks that have occurred since 2012, this research by DER Security, Public History of Solar Energy Cyberattacks and Vulnerabilities, shows that threat activitty has increased significantly.

July 23, 2024. Former head of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers, joins Ross Young (former CISO at Caterpillar), Simon Chassar (former CRO at Claroty), and DER Security CEO Tom Tansy to discuss the threat of nation-state actors to Distributed Energy and the grid. See the recording of their discussion here.

May 23, 2024. State threat actors penetrated the control system of a large solar array in Japan for ransomeware. But is the power system also at risk? Read about the details in this interview of DER Security’s CEO, Tom Tansy, by Cynthia Brumfield of CSO Online.

July 5, 2023. Wired interviews DER Security’s CTO Jay Johnson in this story titled EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk.