CESER is focused on reducing the risk of energy disruptions due to cyber events by bringing to bear the best ideas of the Federal government, the National Laboratories, private partners across the energy sector, academia, and state and local governments. Through the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) cycle, these game-changing projects aim to enhance the speed and effectiveness of threat and vulnerability information sharing, accelerate the mitigation of cyber incidents in today’s systems, and enhance resilience while reducing risk in a quantifiable manner.
Cybersecurity RD&D Strategy for the Energy Sector
- Address the industry’s most critical gaps and needs
- Pursue research that is not supported through private investment
- Eliminate “research vacuum” through extensive and early partnership
- Accelerate technology adoption by focusing on the commercial end use
- Innovate then demonstrate in real-world environments
- Foster leap-ahead technologies by teaming up with some of the nation’s best minds and resources
- Lay the groundwork for, and build on, what works
Informed by National Priorities and Directives
CESER’s RD&D program aligns with the National Cybersecurity Strategy, as well as DOE’s Multiyear Plan for Energy Sector Cybersecurity, which follows the sector’s vision of resilient energy delivery control systems designed, installed, operated, and maintained to withstand a cyber incident while sustaining critical functions.
Transition to Practice
CESER moves innovative research to industry-ready solutions using a strategic mix of RD&D that focuses on both shorter-term RD&D with a high probability of rapid market readiness and game-changing RD&D that supports next-generation cyber system designs. These products are commercialized, released as guidance or open-source software, or adopted into ongoing research to develop new capabilities that help the energy sector achieve its vision of energy delivery systems that can prevent or withstand a cyberattack.
CESER’s Risk Management Tools and Technologies (RMT) division leads the cybersecurity RD&D programs that make game-changing tools and technologies for the energy sector possible. Read the latest report, "From Innovation to Practice: The CESER RMT Program’s Real World Impact on Energy Sector Cybersecurity,” to learn about 50 transitioned and emerging solutions that came as a result of CESER’s investments.
Available Funding Opportunities
When RD&D funding opportunities become available, an application can be found at the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Solicitations and Funding Opportunities webpage.
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