AT&T has released a timely report on the impact of edge compute deployment on cybersecurity for utilities, at a time when edge adoption is sweeping through the water, electricity and gas sectors. Mobile networks play a major role here as conduits for attacks on these edge systems, as well as potential insulators against them. The AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Focus on Energy and Utilities found that 77% of these companies either plan or have already implemented at least one edge use case, suggesting this is becoming a source both of risk and protection against incoming threats. Security was top of the concerns and indeed the main factor constraining edge deployment such that the utilities sector lags behind a number of…