Given the global nature of cyber security threats, regulators around the world are closely following the recently released NERC CIP v5 – the first set of critical infrastructure protection cyber security standards that attaches enforceable penalties to non-compliant power utilities.

In this Light Reading webinar, RAD’s Head of Utilities Line of Business, Amir Barnea, examines the cyber security requirements of NERC CIP and their impact on communications equipment deployed in operational networks. He also identifies the threat(s) each measure is designed to thwart, explains the logic behind it and discusses cyber security best practices for implementing source authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, and SCADA-aware security gateways.