Availability refers to whether supply and demand are available and can meet the need each other

Acceptability refers to whether the scheme is acceptable to most people in the target group

In a written response, FERC officials said that the agency did not conduct an assessment to determine how the leading practices identified in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework could be applied to the cybersecurity standards.

Risk assessment◕Risk management strategy○Supply chain risk management◑

Risk assessment

none of them analyzed the threat of, and vulnerabilities to, a cyberattack spanning all three interconnections.

However, the discussion of the quality of data available regarding DOE’s assessment is inaccurate. According to the assessment, the potential range of load loss resulting from four cyberattack scenarios was based on rigorous modeling and analysis from multiple DOE national laboratory experts. However, these results were based on the 2017 Electricity Subsector Risk Characterization Study, which as previously described, has significant limitations affecting the quality of data.

Problem definition and risk assessment

The two plans and the assessment do not fully address all of the key characteristics needed for a national strategy.

Problem definition and risk assessment.Addresses the particular national problems, assesses the risks to critical assets and operations—including the threats to, and vulnerabilities of, critical operations—and discusses the quality of data available regarding the risk assessment.

DOE and DHS also offer services aimed at helping grid owners and operators assess cybersecurity risks and perform forensic analysis.

Further, federal agencies have performed three assessments of the potential impacts of cyberattacks on the industrial control systems supporting the grid.

Even though cyber incidents involving the grid reportedly have not caused power outages in the United States, cyberattacks on foreign industrial control systems have resulted in power outages.

Specifically, the researchers found that malicious threat actors could compromise a large number of high-wattage IoT devices (e.g., air conditioners and heaters) and turn them into a botnet—a network of devices infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners’knowledge

supply chains for industrial control systems can introduce vulnerabilities that could be exploited for a cyberattack.

vulnerabilities in industrial control system devices before patches can be applied.

The electric grid is becoming more vulnerable to cyberattacks via (1) industrial control systems, (2) consumer Internet of Things (IoT)45devices connected to the grid’s distribution network, and (3) the global positioning system (GPS).

These reliability standards include critical infrastructure protection standards for protecting electric utility-critical and cyber-critical assets from cyberattacks. FERC has approved 11 such cybersecurity standards, 10 of which are currently enforced.

information sharing and collaboratively developing and implementing risk-based standards.

he National Infrastructure Protection Plan, updated by DHS in December 2013, among other things, further integrates critical infrastructure protection efforts between government and private sectors.

protecting critical infrastructure against terrorism to protecting and securing critical infrastructure and increasing its resilience against all hazards

ndustrial control systems are typically network-based systems that monitor and control sensitive processes and physical functions, such as the opening and closing of circuit breakers on the grid.

The grid is generally considered to be resilient.

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