South Australian Utility Expands CrowdStrike Protections to Bolster Defence and Address Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

SA Power Networks is South Australia’s sole electricity distributor. The electricity provider was an early adopter of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform for endpoint detection and response (EDR), replacing a legacy Trend Micro antivirus solution that was not keeping pace with a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

Since then, the escalating threat of malicious cyber activity targeting Australia’s critical infrastructure has heightened the risk for SA Power Networks. This has required the organisation to continuously increase its preparedness, accelerate the adoption of cyber protections and enhance its own cyber resilience.

That’s a significant challenge, especially considering the geographic scale of SA Power Networks’ coverage area and the additional cybersecurity obligations it’s required to meet as a regulated critical infrastructure organisation, explained Nathan Morelli, Head of Cyber Security and IT Resilience at SA Power Networks.