Six times in 2013, Iranian hackers took over the control system for the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook, New York. When the news broke, reporters became focused on the vulnerability of America’s infrastructure. They missed an important point. The Bowman Avenue Dam isn’t exactly declared as a critical infrastructure at the current moment. It …
The task of baselining asset configurations and managing changes on that baseline can be difficult and labor intensive, especially when multiple sites and silos of information are involved. Using spreadsheets may work temporarily, but it is not sustainable by any means; it is error-prone and may expose the facility to additional risks. Using homegrown applications …
NERC CIP-010 Configuration Baseline Management—Need for Automation Read More »
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards provide a framework to identify and protect critical infrastructure assets. NERC has emphasized CIP-010 configuration change management as one of the most important CIPs that must be addressed. NERC has provided a separate standard of practice. This practice is much more rigorous than the traditional IT configuration …
NERC-CIP 010 – Configuration Change Management – Two Most Difficult Things to Deal with Read More »
WizNucleus will be exhibiting on October 19-20 at this year’s annual Grid Security Conference (GridSecCon 2016) held in Quebec, Canada October 18-21, 2016. Please join us at our booth (booth #20) to see our latest NERC CIP compliance software – CyberWiz Pro (CWP). Let us show you how we can make your NERC CIP program …
Visit WizNucleus at GridSecCon Quebec City October 18-21 Read More »
Yes, implementing a good NERC compliance management package helps you manage your compliance data so audits can go smoothly. However, choosing a NERC CIP compliance management software solution that integrates and helps operationalize key tasks gives you the opportunity to improve overall enterprise security. There are many key security-related processes that NERC CIP requires you …
Improve Overall Security with a NERC CIP Software Package Read More »
NERC CIP compliance tracking and management is a highly process oriented and extremely data-capture intensive task, requiring the ability to manage large amounts of data and task workflows. Specialized software for management of NERC CIP compliance is essential for the continued long- term success of the CIP program. Those utilities who choose to customize their …
As NERC CIP v6 got approved by FERC’s Order 822 earlier this year, the burden of meeting compliance requirements and ensuring the protection of BES Cyber Assets is only increasing. The Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards are designed to provide the minimum requirements that an enterprise will require to prevent faults and cyber-attacks, and ensure …
NERC CIP v6 Compliance – Three Things to Consider Read More »
The integrated solution combines robust NERC CIP workflows from WizNucleus with industry-leading Cyber Asset data collection from Tripwire Read more about the integration here. New York, NY March 28th, 2016. Today, Tripwire and WizNucleus announced a technology partnership that combines real-time security operations with compliance for critical infrastructure protection. As part of the Tripwire NERC …
As the April 2016 deadline for NERC CIP V5 compliance approaches, I hear “we’re too far down the road to get a product,” or “we can’t afford a product now, we’ll look later.” At the same time I also hear “there’s no doubt that to repeat and sustain our NERC CIP compliance program, we’ll need …
A Business Case for a NERC CIP V5 Automation Product Read More »
Companies that fall under the NERC CIP V5 scope are starting to realize that using spreadsheets or SharePoint just aren’t enough when it comes to having a sustainable and repeatable compliance program. In addition, many companies are realizing that a generic GRC tool requires a lot of work to just configure the tool for CIP …
Top 10 things to look for in a CIP V5 product solution Read More »
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