BLUF
The rapid uptake of home batteries and electric vehicles, central to the government emission reductions, could be placing Australia’s energy infrastructure at risk of foreign interference; disrupting supply, weaponising the batteries or collecting intelligence data.Learning outcomes:
- Describe the current and future trends of imported house and car batteries
- Describe some of the potential threats of imported batteries from a cybersecurity perspective
- Describe how Defence personnel need to be vigilant around imported EVs
- Describe some of the risk mitigation strategies with imported batteries
