Risk and Compliance: Navigating a Complex Landscape
The Critical Role of Risk and Compliance
- Information Security: Safeguarding company and employee data and information to protect the organization and its employees
- Grid Security and Reliability: Ensuring robust digital defenses for the electric grid’s integrity
- NERC Compliance: Adhering to Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Operations and Planning (O&P) standards to protect bulk power systems
Expanding Your Risk Management Horizons
- Information Security Strategy: Emphasizing a risk-driven approach over mere compliance adherence, ensuring robust and dynamic security postures by establishing a security operating model
- Risk Inventory Development: Crafting comprehensive inventories of risks and their attributes to inform targeted control measures
- Control Cataloging and Assessment: Establishing a detailed catalog of controls and continuously assessing their impacts on identified risks
- Effectiveness Evaluation: Implementing processes to routinely measure the effectiveness of controls in mitigating risks
- Leadership Engagement: Developing communication plans for enterprise leadership, aiding in crucial risk-related decision-making, acceptance, and accountability