The Energy and Utilities sector in US are relied upon by all Americans on a daily basis as part of our core living infrastructure. It is also a critical component of our national security which needs to protected and secured. Wavestrong is helping Energy and Utility companies secure their information assets from malicious insiders, strengthen their cyber systems against attacks and meet and exceed new and existing compliance regulations.
Energy Compliance Regulations:
• Mandatory Compliance with new NERC CIP-002 through CIP-009 by June 1st 2010
• Wavestrong built solution set to help energy, utility and critical infrastructure organizations to reach compliance by June 1st 2010 with minimal cost and time.
• Wavestrong offers Enterprise Information Protection strategy to help understand NERC-CIP standard and allow our customers in this sector to come up with the strategic plan that makes most sense.
For 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has released new mandatory cyber security compliance initiatives to protect energy and utility companies, called CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection). CIP was developed by the North American Energy Reliability Council (NERC). These new regulatory standards, CIP-002 - CIP-009 were designed to protect energy and utility companies with specific focus on cyber security.
Wavestrong is well versed in these new compliance policies and has built out solutions sets for energy and utility companies to become compliant, quickly, easily and with minimal cost, by June 1st, 2010.
Wavestrong’s industry experts are deeply involved within defining cyber security standards and bridging gap between the SCADA network within these energy entities and their overall enterprise infrastructure as Smart Grid makes their network more and more IP based infrastructure.
