10 months ago

https://thenewstack.io/cybersec-threat-hunter-to-devops-youve-been-framed/ has unveiled a mission to reduce software energy consumption, backing research on how users trade off energy consumption against performance and developing a test bench for measuring energy use, which it ultimately plans to make open source. The Finnish cyber security firm has also kicked off discussions on establishing standards for measuring software power consumption with government agencies in Finland and across Europe, after establishing that there is little in the way of guidance currently.

“In the case of software, it’s incredibly hard to figure out common standards for energy efficiency.

Likewise, he said, WithSecure has built a test bench for measuring energy usage of software. It has been using this since January to measure the power consumption of its ongoing agent releases by modeling typical user behavior.