Understand your role, take action, and avoid disruptions

Whether you own generation, operate a wholesale power market, maintain the transmission system, or deliver power to retail customers, you have responsibilities to protect the reliability of the bulk electric system and to secure your assets and supporting infrastructure.

Structure has worked with numerous ISOs/RTOs, T&D utilities, and power trading organizations to educate, assess, design and deliver NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection content.  Structure has also spent time with regional reliability entities performing audits of organizations like yours, bringing crucial experience from “the other side of the fence”.

Our Energy Management and Control Systems Experts can help you:

• Categorize your exposure to NERC CIP Standards
• Help in the identification of Critical Assets and Critical Cyber Assets
• Assess your existing cyber security compliance initiatives
• Recommend industry best practices to secure your systems

Specific areas that Structure can help you include:

Program Design
Envision a bottom-up cyber security approach for your critical generation, transmission, and cyber assets.

• Create an ongoing CIP risk assessment methodology.
• Modify or develop business processes to support adherence to CIP standards.

NERC CIP Audit Readiness and Support

• Perform pre-audit exercises following the same guidelines and procedures used by official auditing bodies.
• Become an integral part of your team before and during audits to prepare your required data submittals, and to respond to ad-hoc auditor questioning.

Marketplace Insight
We bring a heightened awareness of current market trends, as well as an intimate knowledge of your competitors and peers.