Full Title: Cyber Attack Task Force
Author(s): North American Electrical Reliability Corporation
Publisher(s): North American Electrical Reliability Corporation
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
The North American bulk power system (BPS) is one of the most critical of infrastructures and is vital to society in many ways. The electric power industry has well-established planning and operating procedures in place to address the “normal” emergency events (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms) that occur from time to time and disrupt electricity reliability. However, the electricity industry has much less experience with planning for and responding to high-impact events that have a low probability of occurring or have not yet occurred.
To help the electricity industry better understand these low probability risks, in June 2010, NERC and the U.S. Department of Energy issued a report titled, “High-Impact, Low-Frequency Event Risk to the North American BPS”. Subsequently, the NERC board approved a Coordinated Action Plan4 under the leadership of the NERC Technical Committees to establish four Task Forces needed to address this work. This report provides the conclusions of one of them – the Cyber Attack Task Force (CATF).