Electricity sector participants urged Congress to support cyber security programs as the House E&C Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy heard testimony on the efforts of nation-states and other actors to hack the bulk power system.

NERC and other commenters on two NOPRs supported the ERO's proposed changes to the critical infrastructure protection standards.

NERC’s Standards Committee unanimously agreed to reject a standard authorization request that would have exempted nuclear generators from the requirements of an event reporting reliability standard.

FERC staff warned in a report that third-party cloud services pose an ongoing risk to the security of the electric grid.

Members of NERC's Standards Committee advanced multiple standards development projects at their quarterly in-person meeting, along with re-electing the chair and vice chair.

FERC provided additional explanations of a key term in its directive that NERC revise a recently approved cybersecurity standard.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post two inverter-based resource-related standard authorization requests for industry comment at its monthly meeting.

A speaker at a Texas RE webinar suggested that utilities look beyond the minimum cybersecurity preparations required by NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.

NERC asked FERC for additional clarity on a key term in its order directing modifications to the latest critical infrastructure protection standard.