FERC: Tighter standards needed to guard against utility cyberattacks

From: energy biz

Peter Key

Specifically, FERC wants the North American Electric Reliability Corp. – the nonprofit that oversees the interconnected power systems of the U.S., Canada and part of Mexico – to develop security standards governing the supply chains of organizations involved in managing and working on the grid.

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Additionally, FERC wants NERC to address why the standards it has proposed to limit the risks posed by so-called transient devices – which include everything from flash drives to laptop computers – should apply only to computer systems that, according to NERC classification, would have a high or medium impact on the grid if they were disrupted, and not to computer systems that would have a low impact on the grid if they were disrupted.

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