| Security
Standards for Electric Market
Participants |
Security
standards to reduce electric grid
vulnerability in the US Electric market.
The new standards primarily focus on
electronic systems and comprise of nine
sections, including; governance,
security scope, systems management,
access control and incident response. |
Hardware
and Software
Data Management/Applications
Communications Networks |
Operational
Expected to adopt ISO standards based
approach to IT infrastructure for
operational reliability. |
| Standard
Market Design & Structure |
Mandates
the creation of regional transmission
organizations (RTOs). RTOs are to guard
against ‘blackouts by coordinating the
efforts of independent electricity
generators.’ |
Coordination between independent
organizations will drive networking with
associated security, demand prediction
and billing applications. |
Operational
Functional and IT investment for reduced
cost and risk. |
