Digital Risk in Modern Energy

Digital change is accelerating across the energy and utilities sector. But speed creates blind spots. This report examines where assurance maturity is falling behind and how these gaps are creating real risk.

When Assurance Falls Behind

Good assurance is all about catching problems before they reach the grid.

Unfortunately, in a sector that moves as fast as energy and utilities, it's often an afterthought.

Quality gets bolted on late. Performance testing is rare. Cyber assurance covers IT but misses OT. And when something breaks, the consequences land hard.

That’s why we’re taking a hard look at these issues in our new whitepaper, “Digital Risk in Modern Energy: The role of assurance in an increasingly digital sector”.

Drawing on insights from our Global Quality Index 2025/26, alongside research from KPMG, Deloitte, EY and the Australian Energy Regulator, we look at five areas where delivery and operational risk tend to build up, and where the sector’s readiness gaps are most acute.

Download the full whitepaper to see where those gaps are emerging.

What you'll get from the whitepaper

Gap clarity

A clearer sense of where maturity gaps tend to show up.

Industry insights

An overview of how leading providers are thinking about assurance differently.

Transformation readiness

The foundations that help support smooth digital change.

Discover where risk builds up

In this whitepaper, you’ll also get a clear view of where maturity gaps appear and how they translate into risk across five interconnected areas:

Transformation governance,
and where integration tends to break down.

Reliability
and why digital failure now hits as hard as physical outages.

Cyber readiness,
across IT, OT and customer-facing systems.

Performance engineering,
and what late-stage testing really costs.

Automation and AI,
and the growing gap between adoption and assurance.