EV Charging Infrastructure Security: How Hackers Could Disrupt Chargers, Networks, and the Grid
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In this holiday weekend edition of Cybersecurity Today, Jim Love introduces David Shipley's interview with Steve Visconti, CEO of Xiid Corporation, about cybersecurity risks in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. Visconti explains Xiid's software-based security layer for IP networks, aimed at critical infrastructure across enterprise, public sector, and DOD environments, and its growing focus on OT/IoT such as EV charging systems. The discussion highlights how EV chargers connect vehicles, homes, back-office billing/control systems, cloud services, and potentially vehicle-to-grid power flows, creating large-scale attack surfaces that could enable disruption, DDoS activity, or broader grid instability. Visconti argues for "unreachability" architectures that close ports and remove static exposure while allowing only registered users and machine-to-machine access. The interview also touches on concerns about vulnerabilities leading to fires, supply-chain risks, and policy debates such as government-accessible vehicle kill switches.
00:00 Holiday Weekend Intro 01:46 Meet Steve Visconti 04:16 EV Charging Symposium 06:40 Vehicle to Grid Risks 09:16 Fires and Attack Vectors 12:14 Making Chargers Unreachable 14:37 Car as the Threat 19:05 Awareness and DDoS Reality 23:09 Government Kill Switch Debate 24:49 Wrap Up and Sponsor Thanks
