NERC Provides Best Practices for Effective Procedures

摘要

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently issued a report of its findings after analyzing the auditing procedures of its eight regional entities, related to the disturbance event reporting standards: CIP-001-2a EOP-004-1, and EOP-004-2. While an auditor must perform the due diligence necessary to have a reasonable assurance that a responsible entity (an entity responsible for compliance with a particular reliability standard) is in compliance with a standard, inevitably different compliance auditing practices are used across the eight regions. Such inconsistency could lead to different results.