[shermantanktop]

In the rest of the tech industry, what you did to get your diploma gives you about 18 months of momentum. If you haven’t learned multiple new technologies by that point, you’re in trouble. Success in this industry means perpetually redeveloping your own skills, and liking it.

How someone would wave a 20 year old piece of paper as evidence that they know how to use solar tech that was developed last year, I don’t know.

[applied_heat]

I mean, electrical engineering teaches you a lot of the math,physics,and control systems theory, and power systems that guides the design and operating characteristic of power systems devices like inverters. Sure EE doesn’t help with cybersecurity per se, but inverters and solar panels existed 20 years ago so I feel like my 20 year old electrical engineering degree is pretty darn relevant

[g_p]

It certainly does - if you remain current then not a lot has really changed.

If you understand the principles of control systems and how an electrical grid works, this is broadly "just" a grid stability concern.

To some extent this feels like an issue of IoT-ification of things that we otherwise understood just fine! Maybe the real issue is how we blend cyber security knowledge into other sectors, and quantify and ensure it is present?

[shermantanktop]

This article is about IT security for power systems. Ohm’s Law won’t help.

[applied_heat]

Fair enough, the parent comment mentioned “solar tech” and old pieces of paper and silly me didn’t realize that the power systems side works is a given and the problem is essentially hooking it up to computers and the internet to gain a modicum of convenience.