On June 18, 2007, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) mandated all users, owners, and operators of the bulk electric system (BES) comply with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Reliability Standards. Since then, the energy industry has been earnestly implementing the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) NERC Cyber Security Standards CIP-002 through CIP-009. FERC [...]

