Statkraft is Europe's largest supplier of renewable energy, developing and operating assets across hydropower, wind, solar, gas, biomass, and district heating. The company also runs an energy trading operation - buying and selling power in wholesale markets - which means its attack surface extends well beyond plant floors into the financial and market-data systems that move capital and electrons at scale. Every growth investment the company makes goes entirely into renewables, so the infrastructure under protection is scaling as fast as the threat landscape.
For a cybersecurity team, the scope is industrial and financial simultaneously. OT environments span decades-old hydropower turbines and modern wind farms across Norway and global sites, while IT systems support energy trading desks where data integrity and latency have direct market consequences. The threat model includes nation-state actors targeting critical infrastructure, commodity ransomware aiming at operational technology networks, and manipulation of market-facing systems. Defending all of it means working across ICS/SCADA security, cloud architecture, identity management, and real-time monitoring domains - tooling and operations that sit at the intersection of physical plant control and digital market infrastructure.
Headquartered in Norway with operations worldwide, Statkraft operates in an industry where regulatory frameworks like NIS2 and sector-specific compliance obligations shape how security teams plan, build, and respond. The company's mix of legacy energy assets and aggressive renewable expansion creates a continuous integration challenge: new solar and wind sites come online while older hydropower installations need modernization, and every one of them needs to be defended without interrupting the flow of clean energy to millions of customers.
