NERC CIP is the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards series, which applies to the US's electrical generation and distribution systems. Organizations developing or deploying CPS, IoT, and other cybersecurity-related systems in the electrical industry should be well versed in NERC CIP.
These standards address the following sub-topics for bulk electrical systems:
- Cyber system categorization
- Security management controls
- Personnel and training
- Electronic security perimeters
- Physical security of Bulk Electric System (BES) cyber systems
- System security management
- Incident reporting and response planning
- Recovery plans for BES cyber systems
- Configuration change management and vulnerability ...
