MRO Hosts “Security Advisory Council Threat Forum (SACTF)”
ACORE Hosts 20th Anniversary Gala and Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. – ACORE
April 12, 2022
The E-ISAC has released its 2021 End-of-Year Report
April 13, 2022
Summary:
Enhancing routine and emergency operations coordination between the electricity industry and natural gas providers is one of several recommendations identified during NERC and the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s (E-ISAC) sixth security exercise, GridEx VI, held in November 2021. 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. The report is a detailed post-exercise review and analysis that provides recommendations for actions by the electricity industry, cross-sector partners and government. Participants from across North America — including industry, and U.S. and Canadian government partners — took part in the two-day exercise, which tested the operational and policy measures that would be needed to restore the grid following a severe cyber and physical attack.
Additional Discussion:
Participants from across North America – including industry, and U.S. and Canadian government partners – took part in the two-day exercise, which tested the operational and policy measures that would be needed to restore the grid following a severe cyber and physical attack.
Communications, collaboration and coordination are among many policy recommendations highlighted as being key to industry’s success during a severe security event. Those recommendations include:
- Continue to build effective communications procedures and systems to share operational and security information.
- Clarify the differing crisis communications roles of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council and Reliability Coordinators (RC) with government and their members, including Canadian members.
- Continue to enhance routine and emergency operations coordination between the electricity industry and natural gas providers.
- Strengthen operational coordination between the electricity industry and communications providers.
- Continue to reinforce government relationships between United States and Canada to support industry response.
