Sustainable NERC CIP Compliance Review

Congratulations, your organization has certified compliance with some or all of the 41 requirements of the NERC CIP-002 through CIP-009 Reliability Standards!  But what happens now?  You probably realize that maintaining compliance with the NERC CIP Reliability Standards requires substantial effort; unlike the effort to attain compliance, sustainment efforts will continue indefinitely.  Literally every day, maintaining NERC CIP compliance requires your organization to engage in ongoing monitoring, documenting, and assessing and re-assessing, each of which potentially inflicting a significant burden on your staff.

As you certainly realize by now, the foundation of NERC CIP compliance is processes and procedures; up to this point, you focused your compliance efforts on developing and implementing these processes and procedures.  And while these processes and procedures did meet the criteria for compliance, are they really optimal for your organization?  Will maintaining these processes and procedures place as much, if not more of a burden on you as the compliance effort itself did?  If so, you have only two choices, neither of which is good: suffer the burden of suboptimal processes and procedures or become non-compliant.

This is why Encari is now focused on assisting Responsible Entities with achieving sustainable NERC CIP compliance.  Our consultants have many years of experience both implementing and maintaining cyber security processes and procedures for electric utilities, generation companies, manufacturers, financial institutions, government agencies, and more.  Encari can conduct a NERC CIP compliance sustainment review to most importantly help your organization maximize assurance it will maintain NERC CIP compliance, and secondarily to identify opportunities for your organization to save time and money by enhancing current compliance processes and procedures and by achieving varying levels of automation through the use of commercially available security technologies.