Disruptive Energy Firm Uses Darktrace for Smarter Energy System
November 26 2015 - 5:11AM
Business Wire
Open Energi Selects Enterprise Immune System
Technology
Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology,
has announced that innovative energy company Open Energi has chosen
to deploy Darktrace’s award-winning technology to secure its
digital infrastructure.
Open Energi is a British smart grid company whose ‘Dynamic
Demand’ technology allows National Grid to balance the UK’s
electricity supply and demand in real-time. This patented demand
response technology uses the power of the internet to harness
flexibility in our demand for energy, making invisible adjustments
to the timing of equipment’s electricity consumption. This is
helping to deliver a cleaner, cheaper, more efficient and more
secure energy future. By 2030, National Grid aims to meet over 50%
of grid balancing requirements by adjusting energy demand to meet
supply in this manner.
Open Energi partners with companies that manage commercial,
stored-energy equipment, such as refrigeration systems,
air-conditioning units, water pumps, ovens and boilers. Flexible
demand from this equipment is aggregated to create a ‘virtual power
station’ that replaces some of the grid balancing work performed by
traditional power plants, thereby reducing carbon emissions and
lowering costs.
As the Internet of Things (IOT) gathers pace, Darktrace is
uniquely positioned to help energy systems become smarter and more
efficient, and ultimately cut costs and carbon. Darktrace’s unique
Enterprise Immune System, powered by new machine learning and
mathematics, is capable of identifying emerging cyber-threats
within networks, by understanding the ‘pattern of life’ of every
device, user and network. This self-learning approach allows Open
Energi to protect itself in the context of constantly-evolving
threats, and mitigate any potential problems before they arise.
“Open Energi takes security extremely seriously and we are
constantly striving to stay at the forefront of development and
best practice in cyber security. We chose Darktrace because it
recognizes the realities of today’s threat landscape. Rather than
putting rules in place to prevent specific actions, it focuses its
technology on recognizing the abnormal and providing intelligence
on what is going on throughout the entire network,” said Mike
Somers, Information Systems and Security Manager, Open Energi.
“Darktrace is the only company that uses mathematical analysis and
machine learning to detect potential threats, allowing us to stay
ahead of evolving risks.”
“We are delighted to be working with a company as
forward-thinking as Open Energi,” said Nick Trim, Managing Director
EMEA, Darktrace. “The Enterprise Immune System delivers the
self-learning threat detection that enables major critical
infrastructure providers to defend themselves, while nurturing the
innovation that Open Energi is bringing to the industry.”
About Darktrace
Named ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum,
Darktrace is one of the world’s leading cyber threat defense
companies. Its Enterprise Immune System technology detects
previously unidentified threats in real time, powered by machine
learning and mathematics developed at the University of Cambridge,
which analyze the behavior of every device, user and network within
an organization. Some of the world’s largest corporations rely on
Darktrace’s self-learning appliance in sectors including energy and
utilities, financial services, telecommunications, healthcare,
manufacturing, retail and transportation. The company was founded
in 2013 by leading machine learning specialists and government
intelligence experts, and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and San
Francisco, including offices in Auckland, Boston, Chicago, Dallas,
London, Los Angeles, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Seoul,
Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington D.C.
www.darktrace.com
About Open Energi
Open Energi’s unique Dynamic Demand technology aggregates energy
consumption from across our customers' sites to provide a fast,
flexible solution which is equivalent to a power station, only
instead of adjusting supply up or down to meet demand, it adjusts
demand up or down to meet supply. Solutions such as this, coupled
with on-site generation and energy storage technologies means that
the energy market is no longer a linear value chain driven by
fossil fuel production but is becoming bi-directional; creating a
new energy economy where energy consumers can both take and provide
service back to the grid and generate revenue. Dynamic Demand is a
Demand Response service unique to Open Energi that reacts
instantaneously to second-by-second changes in the balance between
supply and demand on the grid.
www.openenergi.com
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