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Waterfall Security Solutions (Waterfall), which specializes in critical infrastructure and industrial control systems security, announced today that its suite of products and its underlying ...

Bulk electricity supply (BES) gets much focus. That includes defining a BES cyber asset as one that would adversely impact one or more facilities, systems or equipment at a BES site—if the asset is ...

The Commission rejects NERC’s proposal to reform the existing “zero tolerance” to CIP compliance, describing the proposal as too ambiguous and unworkable. On November 22, the Federal Energy Regulatory ...

The provisionally-approved CIP V5 standards address a wider spectrum of cyber-security technologies than were addressed in previous versions, and in particular the draft V5 standards address and ...

When the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) signed Order 791 in January 2014, more than 400 utilities suddenly faced a tight timetable to plan for and comply with version 5 of the ...

NERC is charged with developing Reliability Standards, enforceable upon FERC approval, to protect the reliability of the bulk electric system (BES), including the CIP Reliability Standards. NERC’s ...

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.

The Midland Cogeneration Venture (MCV) in Midland, Michigan, is the largest natural gas-fired combined electrical energy and steam energy generating plant in the U.S. It is capable of continuously ...

Like combat fought around the world, cyber war, cyber terror and cyber crime are just as real, and extremely destructive. They target all manner of operations and, by ...