NERC CIP are security standards to regulate, enforce, monitor, and manage North America’s Bulk Electric System (BES).
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) plan is a set of standards aimed at regulating, enforcing, monitoring and managing the security of the Bulk Electric System (BES) in North America. These standards apply ...
(NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security standards endorsed by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2008. It has been claimed that these standards have brought a debate over how much cyber security is enough. There are approaches employed by utilities in ...
(BES) in United States and adjacent domains. Each utility operator contributing to the BES is subject to these compliance mandates. The NERC CIP compliance program has been in place for many years and most utilities have some level of adherence, but as both technology and cybersecurity concerns...
by compliance regulations like NERC CIP, NIST CSF and PCI DSS, among others. While FIM isn’t specifically required forGDPRand HIPAA, it can be helpful during audits. That type of visibility into assets is important for those two regulations – so in those cases, FIM definitely won’t hurt...
Until recently, one might imagine a utility manager saying something like, "I have too many greater worries; it would take an act of Congress to get me to invest time and money in substation cyber security.John ShawUtility Automation & Engineering T&D...
According to NERC, the intent of the CIP Cyber Security Standards is "to ensure that all entities responsible for the reliability of the Bulk Electric Systems in North America identify and protect Critical Cyber Assets that control or could impact the reliability of the Bulk Electric Systems."...
NERC CIP compliance: Weamp;#x2019;ve identified our critical assets, now what?amp;#x201DMertz, M
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Version 5Version 5 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards proposed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) on November 22, 2013, with some notable caveats. Version 5 applies a new approach to Bulk Electric ...
The following paper will identify some of the early compliance barriers and provide some recommendations for those on the front lines of compliance.Mike MertzIEEE Power and Energy Society General MeetingM. Mertz, "NERC CIP compliance: We've identified our critical assets, how what?" in Proc. ...