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1Foreseeing Federal Policy for Smart Grid Security 1 Citation For those of you who are security devotees and are looking for a new place to offer some value, and for those of you who are dedicated to the Smart Grid and are worried about security, I'd like to draw your attention to the draft Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ( FERC ) Smart Grid Policy Paper issued in March, and closing on comments this coming Monday, May 11th. Admittedly it might be a bit close to the wire for those of you looking to add your own views to the process, but as this is, technorati.com
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New NERC Standards Too Tough to Decipher 1 Citation Michael Causey, Editor & Publisher, eDataIntegrityReport.com My heartfelt sympathies go out to anyone who has to wade through the new North American Electric Reliability Corporation?s (NERC) new cyber security standards. Last week (May 6), NERC trumpeted the fact that eight revised cyber security standards for the North American bulk power system were approved by its independent Board of Trustees. That approval wrapped up phase one of NERC?s cyber security standards revision work plan, technorati.com
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NERC Business Development Manager at CBT 1 Citation A very positive meeting was held between Crown Bio and Dr. Bowen from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), with a view to investigating utilization of NERC IP with CBT's biosensor technology for industrial applications., technorati.com
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Time to Shift Some Priorities When Tackling NERC Requirements 1 Citation Based on the latest information from NERC , the Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards, CIP-002 thru CIP-009 reach the Auditably Compliant stage on July 1st, 2009. Up until now most of us have been focusing on the Sabotage Reporting Standard, CIP-001. Most of the violations associated with CIP-001 are a result of not having an established contact with the FBI for sabotage reporting or for deficiencies in the procedures or training related to sabotage reporting. Given that CIP-001 is only, technorati.com
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NERC - Plug Into Protecting the Power Grid 1 Citation Intellitactics SAFE is an affordable solution for electric companies preparing for NERC audits. The NERC CIP standards , like PCI, HIPAA, SOX and others, provide a guidance for strengthening security and protecting mission critical infrastructures . In fact, bulk electric entities must be in compliance with these standards by the end of June 2009. Intellitactics? utility customers use the SAFE LP appliance as a foundation for complying with information security related standards for, technorati.com
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NERC Standards Management: Beyond the Spreadsheet 1 Citation As we all know on August 8, 2005, President Bush signed into law the Energy Policy Act of 2005 , which authorized the creation of an electric reliability organization (ERO) with the statutory authority to enforce compliance with reliability standards among all market participants. The electric industry has had to adjust to the change from a voluntary system of compliance to a mandatory system of reliability standards compliance. In order to deal with this situation most organizations decided, technorati.com
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Not so shocking news on the Grid 1 Citation On Wednesday, the Wall Street journal announced that: "Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies While this is not good news by any stretch of the imagination, it may be a stretch to consider it new. The power grid and its SCADA control components have long been viewed as a likely area for attack, but one that was somewhat naturally less obvious to attackers. Partially this is because the systems themselves are unusual, in as much as they were mainly purpose-built for their jobs, an, technorati.com
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Cybersecurity and the smart grid 1 Citation Michael Giberson Yesterday on the front page of the Wall Street Journal was a report of cyber-attacks on electric utility systems . Computerworld gives this overview of the story . Cheryl Morgan provides a run down of some of the issues , including whether development of a smart grid will increase or decrease the vulnerability of transmission infrastructure to internet-based disruptions. The WSJ ?s Environmental Capital blog also raises the smart grid angle , asking whether a smart g, technorati.com
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RSA Lowers the Cost of Protecting Sensitive Data With New Release of RSAŽ Data Loss Prevention Suite 1 Citation /India PRwire/ - RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced enhancements to the RSAŽ Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite, its integrated, market-leading suite of data security products that are engineered to discover, monitor and protect sensitive data from loss, leakage or misuse whether in a datacenter, on the network, or out at the endpoints. With new features for discovery, remediation and integration with the RSAŽ enVision Platform, the RSA DLP 7.0 Suite is designed to redu, technorati.com
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Watching volcanoes: Natural Environment Research Council podcast 1 Citation The Natural Environment Research Council ?is the UK?s main agency for funding and managing research, training and knowledge exchange in the environmental sciences? (says the NERC ?what we do? page). The NERC is responsible for the British Antarctic Survey and the British Geological Survey , among many many other things, and has a strong commitment to natural hazards research, including (of course) volcanoes . To give a notable current example of the NERC?s involvement in this, technorati.com
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