{"id":19222,"date":"2017-08-10T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.sma-sunny.com\/?p=19222"},"modified":"2018-02-19T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T02:02:24","slug":"statement-on-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/en\/statement-on-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Recently Willem Westerhof published a study on cyber security threads regarding PV inverters, in which SMA was mentioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Unfortunately, the claim has serious concern for our customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">We would like to stress that SMA does not agree with this article.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Please be assured that we have the highest priority for SMA in all respects and that we can protect our inverters and communication products against cyber-attacks. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">We already assessed the mentioned issues on a technical basis and work intensively on the correction. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">SMA products and only a few products in our portfolio.<\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Here are some key facts:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">SMA inverter types are affected: Sunny Boy models TLST-21 and TL-21, Sunny Tripower models TL-10 and TL-30.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">All other products comply with the latest security standards.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">By the Potentials hacker.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Even the devices above are properly protected from hacker attacks, if the users carefully adhere to the measures outlined in our public cyber security guidelines.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Any device not connected to the internet is not directly affected.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">There is no such thing as a &#8220;secret super password&#8221; for all SMA inverters as Westerhoff states. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Our inverters are delivered to our customers with a password.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Regarding possible effects on the public power supply, Willem mentions 17 GW of SMA. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">This is the whole inverter power SMA has sold so far to the residential market. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The power produced with the inverters that might be vulnerable to attack is only a small fraction of this, and they are installed all over the world. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Thus, there is no danger of grid stability even in the extremely unlikely event that all inverters should be successfully attacked at the same time.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">As mentioned before, cybersecurity is an extremely important topic for SMA. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">We are constantly working on implementing the highest security standards and measures with our devices in order to make them invulnerable to attacks. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In this respect, therefore Continually ask our customers, to read and adhere to our we <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sma.de\/fileadmin\/Partner\/SMA_Partnerprogramm\/CyberSecurity-TI-en-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">public cybersecurity guidelines<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> in order to prevent possible attacks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Please find further technically detailed responses to Westerhof&#8217;s claims on our <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sma.de\/en\/statement-on-cyber-security.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">company website<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">For any further questions please use the comment section.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;19222&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Statement on Cyber Security&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 1px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 22px; 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