Assessing Industrial Cyber Risk to the European Wind Industry

**Executive summary:** This advisory explains that rapid remote connectivity in the wind sector has increased cyber risk—citing disruptive attacks in 2022—and outlines the operational and financial impacts of compromise (downtime, potential mechanical damage, revenue loss). It recommends five OT-focused controls to harden wind farms: define an ICS-specific incident response plan, build a defensible architecture with IT/OT segmentation, improve asset visibility and monitoring, secure remote access (MFA and jump hosts), and implement vulnerability management and patching or compensating controls.