Energy and utilities security, from the grid to the back office
Generators, utilities, pipelines and the vendors that serve them answer to regulators, boards and customers for the reliability of critical service. CMDash tracks your frameworks and maturity from one set of evidence.
Regulatory and customer pressure
NERC CIP
Owners and operators of the bulk electric system comply with the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection standards.
Pipeline security directives
The Transportation Security Administration has issued security directives that apply to critical pipeline owners and operators.
Sector expectations
Energy is a designated critical infrastructure sector, and regulators, insurers and customers ask for demonstrable maturity.
Threats that target this industry
Attacks on operational technology
Control systems carry safety and reliability consequences that office systems do not.
Vendor and remote access
Contractors and equipment suppliers with remote access are a frequent path into sensitive networks.
Ransomware on the business side
Billing and corporate systems can halt operations even when control systems are untouched.
The frameworks CMDash tracks for you
Crosswalked, so one piece of evidence counts twice:
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Capabilities that matter most here
Maturity tracking
Track maturity against C2M2 and NIST CSF 2.0 tiers.
Maturity against NIST CSF 2.0 tiers, CIS Implementation Groups, C2M2 and CISA ZTMM.
Framework tracking and crosswalk
Carry control status across the frameworks that overlap.
Controls tracked with owners, status and evidence. A status change carries to overlapping controls in other frameworks.
Vendor register
Keep the contractors and equipment suppliers with access in one register.
Vendors with risk scoring, owners and continuous monitoring, plus SIG Lite and CSA CAIQ questionnaire templates (Enterprise).
Risk register and FAIR
Dollar-denominated loss estimates for outage and breach scenarios.
Likelihood, impact, owner and remediation per risk, with an annualized loss figure in dollars (Starter and up).
POA&M tracking
Findings become tracked actions with owners and dates.
Owner, committed date, milestones, closure evidence and the full history of every change. Tracking is on every plan.
Board-pack reports
Board and regulator-facing reports.
A PDF with posture, top open risks and loss exposure from the report builder (Essentials and up).
Sources
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