{"id":47912,"date":"2021-03-01T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=47912"},"modified":"2021-03-01T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T01:28:21","slug":"solar-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time For All Solar Manufacturers To Take Cyber Security Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47974 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iot.jpg\" alt=\"Solar power devices and cyber-security\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iot.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iot-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iot-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iot-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With this week&#8217;s launch of the\u00a0Internet of Things Alliance Australia&#8217;s (IoTAA) security awareness guides, this seems a good time to remind the solar industry that we&#8217;re part of the Internet of Things &#8211; and so far, we seem to take a pretty relaxed attitude to security.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iot.org.au\/\">IoTAA<\/a> was created in 2016 by a group of industry, academic, and government stakeholders who saw the explosive growth of &#8220;non-IT&#8221; Internet-attached devices, and believed collaboration could improve IoT standards, network resilience, privacy, safety and security.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, it launched two guides, available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iot.org.au\/resources\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the IoTAA IoT <strong>Users<\/strong> Security Awareness Guide, and<\/li>\n<li>the IoTAA IoT <strong>Providers<\/strong> Security Awareness Guide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Alliance plans to follow-up these guides with the launch of a Security Trust Mark later this year (it was announced in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iotaustralia.org.au\/2019\/11\/21\/iotnewanz\/iotaa-to-help-consumers-spot-insecure-iot-devices\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>With millions of devices already in Australian homes, it might look like the industry is chasing a bolted horse, but there&#8217;s no doubt that the real surge has only just begun. As Department of Home Affairs acting assistant secretary for technology policy Jill Ogden told the launch Zoom call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Over a third of Australians added a smart device to their home during the pandemic just to make it more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that the rapid growth in devices doesn&#8217;t hinder the adoption of security.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a keen tech security-watcher, you know IoT devices are already a security challenge. I don&#8217;t follow security advisories as closely as I used to, but IoT security is a quagmire. Many vendors grab generic &#8220;white box&#8221; computing modules from the lowest-cost manufacturers possible, wrap those modules up in a product, write the bare minimum of software, and only reluctantly (if at all) patch insecure products.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one thing the IoTAA wants to change. Its strategy in launching the two guides is twofold: to teach users to ask the security questions before they buy the products, and to get manufacturers to treat security as something that will become a selling point for products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testlab.com.au\/\">Enex TestLabs<\/a> MD Matt Tett told the Zoom call the Alliance wants consumers to view product security like car owners view vehicle safety: nobody today would consider buying a car with two-star crash safety, because there are so many six-star alternatives. Tett added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In <strong>ICT<\/strong>, it&#8217;s whack-a-mole, we lost the fight with security. With <strong>IoT<\/strong>, we can&#8217;t let that happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tett said the Alliance wants vendors in this space to understand that security is the foundation for privacy and safety.<\/p>\n<p>And safety is an important point here. Julia Fossi, director of international, strategy and futures at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esafety.gov.au\/\">Office of the eSafety Commissioner<\/a>, spoke of how that office has seen &#8220;smart home&#8221; products become part of domestic abuse . For example, an estranged partner punishing his ex-partner by taking control of her home&#8217;s thermostat, or Internet-connected toys being recruited as stalkers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Services can get weaponised in the most unexpected ways,&#8221; Fossi told the Zoom call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Solar Needs Security<\/h2>\n<p>If abuse-via-devices hasn&#8217;t been reported in the home solar market, it&#8217;s not because we&#8217;re especially diligent. For example, it&#8217;s hard to find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/\">solar inverter<\/a> vendor whose website lists security updates to its firmware, and describes what vulnerabilities its updates are fixing.<\/p>\n<p>This is serious, given the potential for abuse should someone gain malicious access to inverter controls.<\/p>\n<p>As it becomes the norm for inverters and other solar power-related devices to be internet-connected, more devices will be exposed to the Internet, and some of those will be insecure. Products will be shipped with baked-in default administrative passwords, or they&#8217;ll use unencrypted communications for logins, or the manufacturer will grab white-box firmware from an upstream supplier without giving it a security audit.<\/p>\n<p>It would surely be good to see the industry get active in this space &#8211; <i>before<\/i> we get splashed across the Internet because of a massive security breach. How Fronius handled a <a href=\"https:\/\/sec-consult.com\/vulnerability-lab\/advisory\/multiple-vulnerabilites-in-fronius-solar-inverter-series-cve-2019-19229-cve-2019-19228\/\">vulnerability in 2019<\/a> is a good guide to where we could start.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading The Guides, So You Don&#8217;t Have To<\/h2>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m hopefully talking to the industry here, I&#8217;ll pick up the guide for industry (the\u00a0IoTAA IoT Providers Security Awareness Guide).<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be as pleased as I was to know the guides are brief &#8211; fewer than 20 pages rather than hundreds! That&#8217;s because the Alliance knew it couldn&#8217;t cover the hundreds of vendors already in the IoT market, so the guides are as generic as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The high points of what&#8217;s asked of vendors are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make clear security claims &#8211; know your product&#8217;s security, and describe it accurately to consumers; don&#8217;t ship products with default admin passwords, make sure software is kept updated, and run your own vulnerability disclosure program.<\/li>\n<li>Vendors must secure their own businesses, so malicious actors can&#8217;t discover secrets that make products insecure.<\/li>\n<li>Adopt &#8220;security by design&#8221;, meaning apply security considerations from the beginning of software development.<\/li>\n<li>The same should apply to safety and privacy &#8211; they should be embedded in product development.<\/li>\n<li>Secure your supply chain, so products can&#8217;t be compromised between the factory and the user.<\/li>\n<li>Get expert parties to conduct security evaluations of your products and services.<\/li>\n<li>Get familiar with the IoT security codes and standards that apply to your industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this week&#8217;s launch of the\u00a0Internet of Things Alliance Australia&#8217;s (IoTAA) security awareness guides, this seems a good time to remind the solar industry that we&#8217;re part of the Internet of Things &#8211; and so far, we seem to take a pretty relaxed attitude to 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