Dale Peterson was recently interviewed by Jay Johnson of Sandia and Tom Tansy of the Sunspec Alliance as part of their distributed energy resources (DER) Sunspec webinar series. We covered a lot of issues and Dale was not shy in throwing out some analysis and opinions. After 5 minutes discussing the S4x24 ticket process, the topics discussed:  

• How DER will deal with the complex, large number of users and stakeholders PKI environment.
• The Sunspec device security specification and the benefits of a limited, key set of security controls.
• What is the role of government regulation to solve DER security issues?
• The potential power of the utility companies to levy requirements and be a choke point for access.
• The Patch Act, FDA and DER.
• shift left and product liability due to security flaws
• and more