Prescient’s recent webinar on Effective Physical Security for Electric Substations highlighted the ways in which today’s physical...

On August 10, 2023, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) hosted a joint conference with the Federal Energy...

In this series, I rely on my 50+ years in the electric utility industry to outline concerns and improvements to NERC’s Reliability...

Despite warnings about the risks that electric substations face from lack of updated physical security, electric utilities seem stuck in...

Last week, we questioned whether the attack on two Moore County substations that led to a days-long blackout for tens of thousands would...

Earlier this week, two substations were attacked in Moore County, North Carolina, resulting in a days-long blackout for almost 40,000...

Every asset of the electric power grid, from open air substations to enclosed substations and overhead transmission lines, is vulnerable...

Electric utilities must enhance their preparedness for recovery from a targeted attack on critical electric power grid infrastructure, as...

Physical security practices for the electric utility industry have been stagnant for years. The April 16, 2013 assault on Pacific Gas and...

The recent cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline has spurred nationwide discussions on what should be done to strengthen cybersecurity for...

A delay, detect, respond strategy is no longer effective as the only means of power system security. We need to move beyond the NERC...

As we discussed in our previous post, threats to facilities within the electric power system are difficult to predict. To help mitigate...

Threats to critical infrastructure occur within the U.S. multiple times a year, across all industries. Essential infrastructure to the...