Meeting NERC-CIP Requirements

摘要

As deadlines for the North American Electric Reliability Council Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) standards approach, power plants and electric utilities must begin implementing the necessary security practices to meet the compliance requirements. In the process and manufacturing industries, the advent of open architectures and standard protocols presents both new opportunities and risks for plant enterprises. While the evolution from isolated proprietary applications to open technology has expanded business information availability, it has also exposed the enterprise to electronic threats. Most process control systems used today were not originally designed to defend against cyber attacks. The events of 9/11 and recent cyber incidents on control systems have increased awareness of the inherent vulnerabilities of control systems connected to the Internet and remote telephone connections.