Crowd Energy Information Security Culture - Security Guidelines for Smart Environments

The smart future is characterized by sensors and information and communications technology. Technology convergence is facilitating new and innovative energy concepts such as Crowd Energy and other smart environment concepts. But as technology converges and processes, things, people, and businesses become more interconnected, awareness of cyber risks and thus information security culture is becoming progressively more significant. This was shown in a Swiss case study about cyber risks. Awareness and culture are key issues which, from a human-centric perspective, take behaviors, attitudes, and the underlying system of norms and values into account. This paper discusses security issues in a Crowd Energy environment and introduces Crowd Energy information security guidelines (CEIS guidelines) based on OECD standards. Finally, an initial implementation concept is provided.