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NERC filed its 2022 NERC Standards Report, Status and Timetable for Addressing Regulatory Directives, summarizing the progress made and plans for addressing the reliability standard-related directives issued by applicable governmental authorities.

North American Electric Reliability Corporation Files 2022 Standards Report The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) filed its 2022 NERC Standards Report, Status and Timetable for Addressing Regulatory Directives summarizing the progress made and plans for addressing the reliability standard-related directives issued by applicable governmental authorities....

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Critical infrastructure companies may soon be subject to tighter cyber incident reporting requirements, as new cybersecurity legislation has passed the Senate and will now go before the House.

Cybersecurity Legislation for Enhanced Cyber Incident Reporting Passes Senate, Awaits House Vote - CPO Magazine Critical infrastructure companies may soon be subject to tighter cyber incident reporting requirements, as new cybersecurity legislation has passed the Senate and will now go before the House.

Welcome to Pritesh's Vantage Point! This is a first in a series of posts intended to address the challenges – and the myths – associated with technology adoption by compliance teams, written by Pritesh Bhoite, our implementation team leader.
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Communications, collaboration and coordination are among many policy recommendations highlighted in the GridEx VI Lessons Learned Report as being key to industry’​s success during a severe security event.https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/ESISAC/GridEx/GridEx%20VI%20Report.pdf

Our ‘recipe’ for compliance success has been proven out time and again, even as cybersecurity threats evolve. Read the full post on our blog: https://ipkeyscyberpartners.com/sigmaflow/a-recipe-for-strong-nerc-compliance/

📻 Have you been tuning in to NERC's podcast? Catch episode 4 of Currently Compliant here: https://www.nerc.com/news/Pages/NERC-Releases-Fourth-Episode-of-Compliance-Podcast.aspx

The 2021 U.S. carbon emissions spike showed how high-cost natural gas can up coal use and slow the climate fight.

Ukraine war could extend bump in US coal use, but utilities remain confident in decarbonization path When 2021 natural gas demand drove prices up, generators turned to coal. The war in Ukraine seems to be driving a similar pattern.

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The malware to date appears to be manually targeted at selected Ukrainian systems, though the risks now escalate of a spillover effect to Europe and the US, particularly targeted cyber attacks including critical infrastructure.

CISA Encourages “Shields Up” to Protect Operations and Workers as Cyber War Ramps Up The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has urged a “Shields Up” defense in depth approach, as Russian use of wiper malware in the Ukrainian war escalates. The Russian malw