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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 success in achieving these security initiatives requires time-consuming, diligent and often a multi-team effort. Now imagine amplifying that responsibility over a power plant that extends over a broad geographic region, and you start to get an idea of the challenge that awaits you. In recent years, plenty of power plants have struggled to strengthen their digital security and suffered digital atta...
I. Issue Summary On March 16, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) issued a notice regarding a technical conference inviting comments on matters related to electric reliability threats posed by climate change and extreme weather events.[1] [1] The conference will be held from June 1 to June 2, 2021 with pre-conference comments due by April 15, 2021. II. Summary of R Street Position Climate change adaptation is a societal risk management exercise. Independently, electric reliability policy has evolved toward a risk management framework. As such, it is important t...
[co-author: Shawn Whites] Building off its White Paper issued last summer, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the “Commission”) has proposed changes to its regulations that would encourage more robust investment in cybersecurity infrastructure. The notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) provides incentive rate treatment for voluntary utility investments that go “above and beyond” FERC’s mandatory cybersecurity standards. Comments on the NOPR are due April 6. The Commission’s Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards require users, owners and opera...