Anti-Market Manipulation Training

Anti-Market Manipulation Training

By Mike Moyer, PMCS Specialist The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been actively enforcing the new laws and regulations authorized by Congress in the 2005 amendments to the Federal Power Act (FPA).  One of the key areas of FERC’s enforcement...
NERC CIP Lecture at Western Washington University

NERC CIP Lecture at Western Washington University

On March 6th, Allen Kent presented a 75 minute overview of the Bulk Electric System, NERC history, and NERC CIP Compliance requirements to Western Washington University students in the Computer Science programs.  There were about 27 students & faculty in...
GridSecCon 2018 Review

GridSecCon 2018 Review

By Allen Kent, NERC CIP Specialist, NAES Corporation I attended GridSecCon2018, the NERC E-ISAC security conference, in October 2018.  Every other year E-ISAC has put on a GridEx incident response exercise including Responsible Entities and government agencies...
PRC-027-1: The Standard of “Options”

PRC-027-1: The Standard of “Options”

By John Schmoker, Compliance Testing Services Project Manager In somewhat of a departure from tradition, NERC’s most recently adopted protection and control standard, PRC-027-1, gives entities additional flexibility for establishing compliance. As is always the case...