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Legislative summary
The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) was established in 1968 with the mission of ensuring that the electric system of the United States is reliable, adequate and secure. After President Bill Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63) in 1998 to define infrastructure industries critical to the United States national economy and public well-being, the U.S. Department of Energy designated the NERC to act as the coordinating agency for the electricity industry, which was named one of the eight critical infrastructure industries.
The NERC established a series of cyber security standards for reducing risks to the reliability of the electric systems from compromising critical cyber assets. Electric companies are proactively protecting our national power grid by working to meet the NERC cyber security standards. The NERC standards prescribe a host of physical, network and application requirements for electrical companies operating in the United States, including mandatory vulnerability assessments and reporting.
HP Application Security Center capabilities
- Assess yyour web applications for vulnerabilities that may result in the disclosure of sensitive or private information
- Verify that web application access to sensitive information is controlled by authentication and authorization
- Identify web application command injection vulnerabilities that may execute malicious code or programs
- Check that data communication is encrypted
- Check for vulnerability to denial of service attacks
- Get detailed security assessment reports categorized by NERC standard sections
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