Be Secure, Not Just Compliant

Be Secure, Not Just Compliant

How to increase security by adding simple High/Medium Requirements to your Low-Impact program. Going beyond “let’s do what’s required to be compliant,” to a mindset of how do we protect ourselves and the BES at all times, it would be a great idea to consider some of...
Changing of the Guard: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?

Changing of the Guard: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?

–PRC-001 set to retire, but its replacements may be more stringent William Boulware, NERC Reliability Specialist, NERC Services NERC Reliability Standard PRC-001 is set to retire September 30, 2020 and two new standards, PER-006-1 and PRC-027-1, are set to take...
CAISO Phase One Update

CAISO Phase One Update

Was your organization part of the majority that received deficiency letters from California ISO recently?  In August 2018, CAISO introduced a revised Business Practice Manual for Transmission Planning Process (BPM), which included new data requirements for...
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month

National Cyber Security Awareness month (NCSAM) is held every October as a collaboration between the US government and industries. The purpose of this month long event is to raise awareness of cybersecurity and provide resources which can be used to help entities and...
Winterization Watchlist

Winterization Watchlist

By Jack Jackson, Sr Reliability Specialist NERC Services As we come in to fall the threat of unexpected and severe winter becomes a daily ritual of checking the weather to see how much you need to bundle up and make sure you have all those contingency items to get...