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Friday, November 21, 2014

FERC Pushes Utilities to Adopt Protection Standards for Both Cyber and Physical Security

FERC Pushes Utilities to Adopt Protection Standards for Both Cyber and Physical Security

By Dan Rueckert & Forrest Terrell
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Announces New Cybersecurity Team
New government standards appear well-timed for improving the resiliency of critical network operations in electric generation and transmission systems and combatting cybersecurity and physical security threats.  In April 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decided to adopt the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Version 5 standard for cybersecurity. This decision was

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