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 ...
Cisco is not only “IT approved” but is “IT preferred”, helping you streamline and accelerate security deployments in the utility industry. Product mapping and alignment to NERC CIP Requirements Summary Explanation/Purpose Solution Mapping
However, the additional requests from FERC leave entities in limbo for some vital implementation issues until NERC responds back to FERC. The elephant in the room is the language present in eleven of the CIP Version 5 requirements to "identify, assess, and correct" deficiencies (IACD). While ...
Transitioning to a new version of CIP is never easy, but the Version 5 changes are more significant than earlier versions. They will require planning, manpower and capital investment by every utility. The preparation for Version 5 will require every bit of time that is available. Entities that...
NERC CIP compliance: Weamp;#x2019;ve identified our critical assets, now what?amp;#x201DMertz, M
(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 ...
M. Mertz, "NERC CIP compliance: We've identified our critical assets, how what?" in Proc. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, July 2008, pp. 1-2.Mertz, M. (2008) `NERC CIP compliance: We've identified our...
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."...
Substation cyber security is getting a lot of attention these days. 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 Shaw...