Claroty simplifies compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) requirements, empowering organizations to drive resilience across their critical operations and infrastructure.
NERC-CIP standards and regulations were developed to ensure the security and reliability of Bulk Power Systems (BES). The CIP standards provide a cybersecurity framework for identifying and securing critical assets that impact the supply of electricity in the United States, several provinces in Canada, and one state in Mexico.
The fundamental requirements utilities must follow under NERC-CIP are to identify critical assets, create control mechanisms, enforce logical and physical security of their systems, and recover any affected assets following a cybersecurity incident.
These standards require North American critical infrastructure entities, including owners, operators, and users of any part of the electric power industry to adhere to a baseline set of cybersecurity measures.
The enforcement of NERC-CIP standards involves audits, assessments, and compliance reviews conducted by NERC’s compliance monitoring and enforcement program. Failure to comply with these standards may result in monetary fines, sanctions, or other actions.
Claroty’s cyber-physical systems (CPS) cybersecurity portfolio both supports and simplifies NERC-CIP compliance by extending robust protection, monitoring, and other cyber risk management controls to all CPS — including the processes and networks that underpin the BES. Alignment between the Claroty portfolio and NERC-CIP spans the latest CIP requirements. Specifics include:
Claroty xDome is a flexible SaaS platform purpose-built for all use cases & types of CPS on the entire industrial cybersecurity journey.
Claroty xDome Secure Access delivers frictionless, reliable, secure access for internal and third-party OT personnel.
Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) offers robust, on-premises cybersecurity controls for industrial environments.
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