Battery cybersecurity

Red-team range for Battery Energy Storage Systems

A red-team demonstration suite for Battery Energy Storage Systems. It traces how a weakness in the BMS, PCS or EMS layer can become a physical outcome such as grid instability, equipment damage or a shutdown. Every scenario is backed by a documented incident or published research, and runs in an isolated digital twin so your team can watch it safely.

What it demonstrates

Where OT weaknesses become physical outcomes

The suite focuses on classes of weakness, each traced to a physical consequence and shown safely in a digital twin.

  • Authentication gaps

    OT buses such as CAN were not designed with authentication, so a valid-looking command can be accepted without proof of origin.

  • Unvalidated inputs

    State-of-charge and setpoint values that are written without validation let a fabricated reading drive real dispatch decisions.

  • Weak update and access control

    Firmware and admin workflows without strong role control or integrity checks are a repeatable foothold.

  • Physical consequences

    The point of the exercise is the link from a software weakness to a physical outcome, which signature tools do not flag.

Why it matters

What teams take away

  • The attack surface spans the whole stack, from the OT bus to the web interface.
  • Cyber events have physical consequences: a bad packet can matter as much as a bad cell.
  • The kill chain is fast, which is why monitoring both IT and OT layers matters.
  • Traditional IT security alone is insufficient for OT protocols.
  • Every scenario maps to a documented real-world equivalent or published research.
Resources

Offering documents

Every demonstration runs on an isolated digital twin — Podman containers with a Python physics core — so your team sees the full chain without any risk to production.

  • BESS Cyber-Physical Red Team Range

    One-page overview of the demonstration suite, mapped to the regulatory controls a power-sector operator already expects (CEA cyber rules and CERT-In reporting).

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  • Utility-Grade Cyber-Physical Red Team Offering

    The full engagement model for utilities and grid-scale BESS operators: digital-twin methodology, scope, and detection-ready output format.

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See the chain in a safe digital twin.

We run the demonstrations against a model of your architecture in an isolated sandbox, then hand you a detection-ready report.