NERC Compliance Assistance CIP 001-009:

The electric utility industry faces the challenge of securing the physical environment, the network environment AND the critical infrastructure of the utility environment. When it comes to power, water and energy resources, what passes for legitimate downtime in other industries is not acceptable when these vital resources go down due to attack, physical failure, mishandling or natural disaster. Using a combination of tried and true vulnerability assessment/risk assessment techniques, SCADA testing for the critical infrastructure and environmental auditing, The Saturn Partners, Inc provides skilled engineering talent, experienced in guiding clients through the standards of compliance as outlined by the NERC, which outlines steps utilities need to take to secure the network infrastructures against compromise: Among the areas of compliance are the following:

Critical Assets: Facilities, systems, and equipment which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable, would affect the reliability or operability of the Bulk Electric System.

Cyber Assets: Programmable electronic devices and communication networks including hardware, software, and data.

Critical Cyber Assets: Cyber Assets essential to the reliable operation of Critical Assets.

Cyber Security Incident: Any malicious act or suspicious event that:

Electronic Security Perimeter: The logical border surrounding a network to which Critical Cyber Assets are connected and for which access is controlled.

Physical Security Perimeter: The physical, completely enclosed ("six-wall") border surrounding computer rooms, telecommunications rooms, operations centers, and other locations in which Critical Cyber Assets are housed and for which access is controlled.

SCADA Testing for Critical Infrastructures/SCADA Systems Upgrades/Replacements

Through a combined effort with specialized partners serving the utilities, transportation and government sectors, SPI in 2009 will be able to offer a full range of SCADA related services, including testing of SCADA systems, upgrades and full replacement of SCADA systems, if necessary, to meet NERC and other compliance standards for security and soundness

Available through our partnership is suite of pipeline software products for energy; turnkey conversions, hosting and monitoring, and specialized software used to extract SCADA data from legacy systems, a visualization and decision support tool allowing instant access to SCADA and operational data, and a data broker connecting SCADA systems to Manufacturing Execution systems or enterprise databases.

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