On January 19th, the FERC approved rules to improve the cybersecurity of the grid by issuing several directives to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Under the new rules, the NERC is required to develop and submit reliability standards for FERC approval that would require internal network security monitoring (INSM) for both medium-impact systems with high-speed internet connections and high-impact bulk electric system (BES) cyber systems with external routable connectivity.
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