On March 7, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") to develop reliability standards requiring owners and ...

Physical access and logical access have historically been two separate (and likely unequal) silos within an organization. IT has their password access mechanisms; with some modern improvements.

There are no unimportant North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) reliability standards, but from time to time, NERC and the Regional Entities (Regions) place greater emphasis on certain ...

Electrical utilities have developed converged standards for protecting and managing risks. Is your industry next? It took four years, twice as long as Larry Bugh thought it would, but the nation now ...

After nearly forty years as a senior security executive in the banking industry, and now as a consultant, I've had the opportunity to develop and assess many physical security programs for banks and ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Cities and counties have started deploying servers and data ...

The lines that once clearly separated on-campus physical security systems from cybersecurity are increasingly blurred, due to ...