The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) first issued the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards to safeguard electrical systems in 2003. In 2006, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Security and Reliability standards proposed by NERC, making the CIP Cyber Security Standards mandatory and enforceable across all users, owners and operators of the bulk-power system. Failure to take the necessary security precautions exposes your electric cooperative to greater risks, including an increased likelihood of disruption of service and regulatory fines.
Unified Security Solutions Inc (USSI) has worked with multiple service providers across the country, performing risk assessments and providing security-related consulting services that improve power grid security and enable cooperatives to adhere to NERC CIP regulatory requirements. We also have extensive experience performing Cyber Vulnerability Assessments to help clients satisfy NERC CIP-002 through CIP-009 compliance.
USSI’s NERC CIP Gap Analysis and Risk Assessment utilize a risk-based approach to manually identify critical infrastructure vulnerabilities throughout your entire enterprise to protect your network access points and cyber assets, assess its effectiveness against industry standards, inform you of your current risk, and give you customized priorities for moving toward an improved security posture, and will get you to meeting your compliance requirements.. This assessment focuses on five primary areas of your control environment: