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.

NERC released an industry survey on emerging security risks to the grid, along with material helping owners of inverter-based resources register with the ERO.

FERC approved a proposed standard to require internal network security monitoring at high- and medium-impact grid cyber systems while ordering further modifications.

NERC's Standards Committee moved forward with multiple standards development projects, while rejecting one standard request as proposed by a development team.