Cybersecurity for Industrial Fleet Charging

What Should Industrial Fleet Managers Consider Regarding Cybersecurity? 

The material handling equipment (MHE) and ground support equipment (GSE) sectors continuously face the challenge of maintaining safe and secure environments while being at risk of common cyberattacks such as ransomware, data breaches, and most recently, AI-powered threats. These attacks on electrified fleets can disrupt daily operations, delay flights or shipments, and introduce operational vulnerability across highly visible environments. As cyber threats become more complex, it’s important to ensure your electrified industrial fleet implements stringent cybersecurity practices. 

Considering Cybersecurity When Selecting Off-Highway Charger Infrastructure 

In airport ground support and material handling environments, a cyberattack on electrified equipment can cause significant widespread downtime while negatively impacting safety, speed, revenue, and end customer satisfaction. Fleet managers need off-highway chargers built to withstand that level of risk and continue operating at maximum efficiency.  

At Enatel, we understand that our chargers are used in applications where asset security between systems is paramount. Cybersecurity is one of our primary responsibilities before our products reach commercialisation, and our long-term structured approach continues to ensure that our infrastructure is carefully designed, tested, compliant, and adhered to a governance process that reduces risk.  

Cybersecurity starts at the design phase of product development 

From the beginning phases of product development, the Enatel team designs each product to be inherently secure with built-in security features that add protection from internal and external cyber threats. This guarantees that our battery chargers are cyber secure and can withstand a variety of cyberattacks.  

Richard Moore, Director of Engineering at Enatel said, “Ensuring that critical infrastructure products, such as off highway chargers, are cybersecurity compliant is essential to maintain the resilience and security of material handling businesses and airports. This is why Enatel focuses on complying our products to international standards and, further, undertaking third-party independent testing.” 

Cybersecurity Standards and Compliance Testing for Industrial EV Chargers 

Throughout the development process our products undergo a series of rigorous testing in compliance with IEC 62443 and other international standards that guarantee the safety, integrity, and availability of industrial systems. Additional external and third-party validation testing is done on an annual basis to ensure continuous compliance. In addition, real-world cyberattack simulation tests verify optimal security before our products reach the hands of our customers. Enatel’s charging solutions prioritize security not only within the charger itself, but also within the connected digital platforms through our formalized compliance process. 

How We Protect Our Customers’ Critical Assets with Governance 

As a final step in our cybersecurity risk management strategy, Enatel has established formal governance policy pillars with oversight from our parent company, IDEAL Industries, Inc., to add extra layers of security and assurance that our fleet chargers adhere to best-in-class cybersecurity practices like:  

• Secure Software Development Lifecycle – The product and software development lifecycles allow our engineering team to prioritise cybersecurity at the beginning stages of product development, creating fully self-secure and reliable chargers for warehouses and airports. This process receives thorough direction and oversight from a board of senior executives as we continue our mission to uphold cybersecurity compliance. 

• Annual Cybersecurity Training – We host ongoing cybersecurity training for our teams, allowing us to have an enterprise-wide understanding of the importance of mitigating risk to keep our customers’ assets secure. 

• Additional External Testing – Our fleet chargers undergo a series of independent, external, and annual tests to maintain compliance with a variety of international standards as software programs evolve. 

Cybersecurity is a long-term commitment that we will continue to champion as a mission-critical initiative to deliver secure, reliable charging infrastructure to our material handling fleet and ground support operations customers.