The importance of security culture for crowd energy systems

Driven by the energy turnaround, it can be seen that the centralized architecture of our energy system is becoming increasingly decentralized. This is fueled in particular by digital innovations. Security concerns in bottom-up energy networks such as Crowd Energy systems are growing, especially because the protection of private information is quite a complex problem. Technology alone is not enough to assure accepted levels of security. Energy prosumers are involved in every process of energy production, storage, and consumption. It is just a matter of time before this Crowd develops a security culture that impacts the security outcomes directly. In this paper we investigate the components that form this culture, and the methods to direct it in a desired path. We present a security culture framework that intends to enhance security outcomes, and we apply a cultural repositioning framework to further support security.