SEC Issues Guidelines On Reporting Cybersecurity Breaches and Risks
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued guidelines to publicly traded companies about what they’re obligated to disclose when hit by a cybersecurity breach. Particularly, the SEC...
View ArticleMore Standards Added to the SGIP Catalog
The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Plenary Committee voted to add three new standards to the SGIP Catalog of Standards. According to the NIST website, “the Catalog is a compendium of...
View ArticleNIST Releases Version 2 of Interoperability Roadmap for Comment
The request for public comments on the draft NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0 was published in the Federal Register on October 25, 2011. The Federal...
View ArticleDraft SGIP Document on Security Assessment is Released
In an email to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Smart Grid Cybersecurity Working Group (CSWG), it was announced that the CSWG Testing and Certification subgroup has completed...
View ArticleSGIP Release Revised Testing Procedures
The NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)has released version two of its Interoperability Process Reference Manual, with a guide to the process by which test laboratories and certifying...
View ArticleNIST Releases Draft of Inter-agency Document On Federal IT Security and Privacy
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the first draft of special publication 800-53 revision 4 yesterday, providing revisions to the Federal Information Security Management Act...
View ArticleDOE Releases Draft of Risk Management Principles for Comment
The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a second draft of the Electricity Subsector Cybersecurity Risk Management Process (RMP) guideline for public comment. According to the document introduction,...
View ArticleReport From SGIP Face-to-Face Meeting: SGIP Transition, Recommendations For...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) opened its Spring Face-to-Face Meeting in Charlotte on March 20, 2012. The opening plenary session...
View ArticleWhite House Announces New Utility Commitments To Green Button Initiative
The Administration announced today that nine major utilities and electricity suppliers will commit to providing more than 15 million households access to data about their own energy use with a simple...
View ArticleNew Interoperability Standards Ready for SGIP Vote
The governing board of NIST's Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) approved eleven standards for approval into the SGIP Catalog of Standards. The vote begins today and concludes September 5th at...
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