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Navigating Cybersecurity with NERC CIP as the North Star

| | Critical Infrastructure, Featured Articles, ICS Security, NERC CIP, Regulatory Compliance
Working in the Electric Utility sector of critical infrastructure gives a person a very unique perspective on how many of the pieces of the puzzle fit together to provide uninterrupted services to ...
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How Tripwire State Analyzer Can Help You to Comply with NERC CIP

| | Automation, Compliance, ICS Security, NERC CIP, policy
Are you an organization that operates a Bulk Power System (BPS) in the United States? If so, you understand the need to comply with the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards. Developed by ...
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Robert M. Lee’s & Jeff Haas’ Little Bobby Comic – ‘WEEK 339’

| | Jeff Haas, Little Bobby Comic, NERC CIP, Robert M. Lee, Sarcasm, satire, Security Commentary, Security Humor, Security Politics
via the respected security expertise of Robert M. Lee and the superlative illustration talents of Jeff Haas at Little Bobby Comic Permalink ...
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Achieving CIP Compliance, NERC-Style

| | Compliance, Critical Infrastructure, NERC CIP, NERC reliability standards
It’s often said that cybersecurity is hard. Anyone who has ever worked their way through the SANS Critical Controls, PCI-DSS or even something deceptively minimalist as the OWASP Top 10 knows that ...
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4 Steps for Assessing Your NERC CIP Compliance Program

| | Critical Infrastructure, NERC CIP, Regulatory Compliance, Tripwire Enterprise
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) Standards are a cybersecurity compliance framework designed to protect utility organizations. Adhering to these guidelines is essential—falling short will leave your ...
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FERC Releases Staff Report on Lessons Learned from CIP Audits

| | audits, FERC, ICS Security, lessons learned, NERC CIP
In October, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its “2020 Staff Report Lessons Learned from Commission-Led CIP Reliability Audits.” The report summarizes the Commission’s observations from Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) audits ...
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FERC Approves Deferment of 3 CIP standards

| | Compliance, cybersecurity regulation, Energy regulatory commission FERC, NERC CIP
Just a couple of weeks back I posted to The State of Security an article titled “Finally Some Good News: NERC Proposes Deferment of 3 CIP standards,” and, as suspected, the Federal ...
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Finally Some Good News: NERC Proposes Deferment of 3 CIP standards

| | cybersecurity regulation, NERC CIP, NERC CIP standards
Amidst all the pandemic doom and gloom, we finally have something positive come from the chaos: NERC filed a motion recently (April 6, 2020) to defer three Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability ...
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CIP-003-7: Transient Cyber Assets and Removable Media in 2020

| | BES cyber systems, CIP-003-7, cyber assets, IT Security and Data Protection, NERC CIP
Standard CIP-003 exists as part of a suite of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards related to cybersecurity that require the initial identification and categorization of BES Cyber Systems and require organizational, operational, ...
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What is NERC?

| | Critical asset, Cyber asset, Cybersecurity, Electric reliability corporation nerc, Electrical grids, Energy regulatory commission FERC, Enforcing compliance, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, NERC CIP, NERC CIP standards, NERC reliability standards, North American Electric Reliability, Physical Security, Recovery planning
NERC CIP Standards Background and Basics The North American Electic Reliability Corporation (NERC) is an international regulatory organization that works to reduce risks to power grid infrastructure. They do this through the ...
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