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Scientists and engineers research energy and security issues, so they are well aware that Internet of Things (IoT) combined with technologies such as 5G telecommunications and artificial intelligence (AI) are ushering in an era of fine-grained insight and control over infrastructure from smart microwaves to the entire electric power grid. On the flip sidethe growing number of connected devices increases the attack surface from a cybersecurity perspective.
The innocuous microwave on a shelf in a laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., is anything but ordinary.
“Weird,” is how Penny McKenzie, a cybersecurity engineer at the laboratory, describes the device.