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 ...

LEXINGTON, S.C., May 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avtec Inc., the leading independent provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) dispatch console systems, announced today that its Scout™ console ...

Electrical utilities have developed converged standards for protecting and managing risks. Is your industry next? It took four years, twice as long as Larry Bugh thought it would, but the nation now ...

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection standards govern the critical infrastructure of all entities that materially impact the reliability of the bulk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electrical utilities are already challenged with the process of becoming certified for compliance with the NERC CIP standard for IT security. The NERC CIP standard is evolving, thank goodness. Perhaps ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fortress Information Security, Inc (Fortress) announces the launch of the Foundations Program specifically designed to assist utilities of all sizes needing to address ...

In August 2014, NERC published its Cyber Security Reliability Standards CIP V5 Transition Guidance. The deadline to comply with NERC CIP 5, as it’s called, was scheduled for April 1, 2016. Many U.S.