Commission report reveals cyber security lessons learned from compliance audits

摘要

FERC staff on Friday issued a report to help large power generators and transmission facilities comply with reliability standards and improve cyber security, after a string of non-public audits revealed some common compliance pitfalls. For instance, entities that share a facility should clearly delineate the compliance responsibilities of each entity, in order to avoid overlooking required protections, the report said. Entities should also disable all other network access to a bulk electric system (BES) cyber system that is being remotely accessed,