Cybersecurity in AI Systems for Energy Infrastructure: Identifying, Assessing, and Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks in the Context of the Renacore Platform
Artificial intelligence can strengthen energy operations, but it also creates new cybersecurity risks. This thesis examines how an AI-enabled energy platform can identify, assess, and mitigate these risks while meeting the reliability and security demands of critical infrastructure.
Abdallah, Abu-Taleb, 2026
Type of Thesis Bachelor Thesis
Client Renacore GmbH
Supervisor Misyura, Ilya
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Energy infrastructure is becoming increasingly digital, connected, and AI-enabled. While AI can support predictive maintenance, optimization, and decision-making, it also introduces cybersecurity risks involving operational data, models, software dependencies, cloud services, and system integrations. This thesis examines these risks in the context of Renacore's intelligence platform for energy infrastructure.
The work combined academic and industry literature with analysis of Renacore’s platform and input from experts in energy, cybersecurity, and technology. The identified risks were then structured, assessed, and translated into a cybersecurity framework tailored to the requirements of AI systems in energy infrastructure.
The research identified key cybersecurity considerations that need to be addressed when AI-enabled systems are used in energy infrastructure. Based on these findings, a tailored cybersecurity framework was developed to support the structured identification, assessment, and mitigation of relevant risks.The framework brings together requirements from AI security, operational technology, cybersecurity governance, and the energy sector and translates them into a practical approach for secure system development and operation. A staged implementation roadmap complements the framework by outlining how appropriate cybersecurity measures can be introduced and strengthened over time.For Renacore, the results provide a practical basis for integrating cybersecurity into further platform development, supporting secure deployment in customer environments, and communicating a structured security approach to customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
Studyprogram: Business Information Technology (Bachelor)
Keywords Artificial Intelligence; Cybersecurity; Energy Infrastructure; Operational Technology; AI Risk Management; Critical Infrastructure; Digital Trust
Confidentiality: vertraulich