Electric Sector Cyber Directive Stresses Incident Reporting

By Darren Reed, Imran Ahmad and Katherine Barbacki (September 10, 2019, 2:08 PM EDT) -- The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, or NERC, recently adopted Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standard CIP-008-6 (Cyber Security – Incident Reporting and Response Planning), a directive which creates new cybersecurity incident reporting obligations for bulk electric systems, or BES, categorized as high or medium impact in North America. The directive also emphasizes the importance of cyber planning and preparedness, and is set to be implemented in December 2020....

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