Last month, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff issued its annual report on “recommendations to help users, owners and operators of the bulk-power system improve their compliance with the [North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)] mandatory Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards and their overall cybersecurity posture.” The CIP reliability standards are intended to “mitigate the cyber security and physical security risks to . . . facilities, systems, and equipment, which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable as a result of a security incident, would affect the reliable operation of the Bulk-Power System.” The report is intended to “help entities assess their risk and compliance with mandatory reliability standards and, more generally, . . . facilitate efforts to improve the security of the nation’s electric grid. To read the full post, please click here.
FERC Staff Issues Report on Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standard Audits
