For the second time in less than a year, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has imposed a six-figure penalty on a participant in the electric market for fundamentally failing ...
There's been a lot of buzz in the news lately about the new security regulations that electric utilities need to meet. In this tip, we'll cover how security solution providers can help utilities ...
A power interruption could happen as a result of a malicious attack, an act of cyber-terrorism or simply an innocent mistake. No matter what the cause, the North American Electric Reliability ...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) July 16, 2015, proposing to approve various Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about the anticipated positive aspects of NERC CIP 011. I received comments and questions about timing of approval and implementation, as well as a request to briefly clarify ...
Even if your generating facility was exempt from previous versions of NERC’s Critical Infrastructure Protection standards, the latest version dramatically steps up the number of facilities encompassed ...
NERC-CIP identifies standards in key areas designed to protect power plants and all other aspects of electric utility operations and assets. The standards include provisions for identifying critical ...
The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) CIP Security Standard was designed to help organizations protect their critical cyber assets. This includes bulk electric system assets, as well ...
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) Reliability Standards are under constant revision even while new requirements are under active development. As noted in the last NERC Critical ...