Audit-Ready Every Day: Automating NERC CIP Compliance Across All IEDs
NERC CIP compliance should not require a 4-week preparation scramble before audits. Yet many utilities still rely on manual processes - spreadsheet-based password tracking, periodic configuration reviews, and evidence collection that consumes engineering resources that should focus on grid operations.
This session demonstrates how automated device management transforms NERC CIP compliance from periodic project to continuous state. See how leading utilities achieve always-audit-ready status through automated password rotation with complete documentation, real-time configuration change monitoring with automatic baselining, role-based access control with integrated authentication, and continuous evidence collection for CIP-005, CIP-007, and CIP-010.
Learn how one utility reduced their audit preparation from 4 weeks to 1 day - not through better documentation practices, but by eliminating manual processes entirely. Every password rotation, configuration change, and access event is automatically logged, timestamped, and archived.
Beyond audit efficiency, discover how compliance automation improves security. When password rotation happens automatically on schedule, security gaps from forgotten rotations disappear. When access requires documented authorization, rogue access becomes impossible.
Compliance and security reinforce each other when automation removes human error from the equation.
Session Sponsored by SUBNET Solutions Inc.