Abstract—With the structural change in the electrical energy
supply, supply-related processes and procedures are
increasingly being modified. Due to the gradual
decentralization of electrical energy generation and the network
expansion required for this, new requirements are being placed
on the electrotechnical processes and the information and
communication technology processes. A currently promising
concept for solving these challenges in favor of transmission
operators and distribution system operators is the integration of
a so-called virtual power plant. Virtual power plants act as an
integral part of the future electrical supply system between the
critical infrastructure and the distribution network operators
as well as transmission system operators in the field of remote
monitoring and remote control of decentralized energy
generation systems. With the classification of a virtual power
plant as a critical infrastructure, the importance of these
entities as an active member of the German electrical energy
system in the interest of compliance with electrical and
information technology security is explicitly emphasized. As a
critical infrastructure, virtual power plants are committed to
achieving a minimum level of information security. Chapter
6.1.3 of DIN EN ISO/IEC TR 27019:2020 recommends that
virtual power plants maintain contacts with certain Computer
Emergency Response Team organizations. However, it turns
out that there is currently no organizational model for a
computer emergency response team that focuses on virtual
power plants in targeting its target group. Thus, the main goal
of the present elaboration is the completion of a scientifically
based approach, which deals with the efficiency of a possible
solution to the problem of designing integrative security
processes for the provision of Computer Emergency Response
Team services, which is growing out of practical relevance to be
solved in virtual power plants. The assumption here is that
there is a need for research at this point about the challenges of
the energy transition that have not yet been clearly presented.
Index Terms—Computer emergency response team, critical
infrastructure, information security, virtual power plants
The author is with Clavis Institute for Information Security, Niederrhein
University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld, Germany. E-mail:
asiye.oeztuerk@hs-niederrhein.de
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Cite: Asiye Öztürk, "Shared Service Processes for the Information Security in the Smart Grid of the Future," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 76-80, 2023.
