Cybersecurity, Reliability & CIP

Securing Our Grid

Prepare, Protect, Respond, Restore

Just like dealing with natural attacks on the grid — hurricanes, storms and floods, and just like dealing with man-made attacks on the grid — vandalism, terrorism and even acts of war — we need to prepare, protect and respond to restore the grid's essential service as rapidly as possible.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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EPRI Making the Grid More Flexible

As in yoga, flexibility is crucial

Roundtable discussion with Mike Caravaggio, Sherry Bernhoft and Aiden Tuohy, Senior Project Managers, and John Bistline, Principal Technical Leader, Electric Power Research Institute.
Byline: 

Mike Caravaggio, et al

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EPRI Innovating Cyber Security Metrics

Standardizing for Grid Resilience

EPRI developed an initiative to establish standard metrics that any utility can adopt, track, and make meaningful comparisons across the industry.
Byline: 

Matt Wakefield, Candace Suh-Lee, and Galen Rasche

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Cyber Threats, Emerging Defenses

NARUC, NASUCA, EPRI, Utilities, Security Firms on Cyber

At the Utility Infrastructure Security Conference in Connecticut, NARUC, NASUCA, EPRI, utilities, and security firms discuss cyber.
Byline: 

Andrew Minikowski

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Accelerating Generation Changes Make Assuring Reliability More Complex

A NERC Perspective

Assuring the reliability of the bulk-power system in North America requires identifying challenges and formulating appropriate solutions to a rapidly evolving generation-resource mix.

As the Electric Reliability Organization, NERC is charged with assuring the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid. As such, NERC conducts annual, seasonal and special reliability assessments to identify and analyze trends or potential risks.

Byline: 

Thomas Coleman

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