Get an in depth review of the new NERC Physical Security standards and how they relate to threat and vulnerability assessment and legal and regulatory compliance

1. What you should know about Requirements 4, 5,
and 6 of the NERC Physical Security Standard
Presenter
Allan Wick
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2. Learning Objectives
• Standard requirements:
• - What’s required to be included in
a Threat Assessment
• - External sources for threat
information
• - Vulnerability Assessments based
on design basis threat
• - What’s required to be included in
a Physical Security Plan
• - Who may conduct third party
reviews
• - How to protect sensitive or
confidential information available
to 3rd party reviewers
• - External resources available

3. Why A Physical Security Standard
• Metcalf Substation Attack 4/16/2013
• Media attention
• Congress
• FERC
– Order 802 3/7/2014
– Approved CIP-014-1 11/20/2014
• NERC
– Created CIP-014-1, physical security standard
– Effective 10/1/2015

4. Requirement R4
• Each Transmission Owner that identified a
station, substation, or a primary control
center in Requirement R1… shall conduct an
evaluation of the potential threats and
vulnerabilities of a physical attack to each…
• The evaluation shall consider the following:
– Unique characteristics…
– Prior history of attack on similar facilities…
– Intelligence or threat warnings…

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