Steve Parker
of EnergySec just let me know that they have just put up a survey
on NERC’s April CIP v5 FAQs document (available here) that
was published yesterday (I wrote about one of NERC’s answers in my post
yesterday, being ever-vigilant to bring my readers the latest breaking news).
You may
think it’s odd that EnergySec is surveying entities on their reactions to the
different answers, when the FAQ document is itself available for public comment. Steve pointed out that public comments by
NERC entities are always vetted by management and legal counsel, so they
probably don’t reflect what the people in the trenches actually feel. That’s why this is a completely anonymous
survey.
Of course,
since the survey is anonymous it
doesn’t have scientific validity, and NERC can’t be expected to automatically
take action based on its results. But I
know I’ll be very interested in hearing what people say in it, since I kind of
doubt that anyone who doesn’t follow CIP pretty closely will bother to reply. In fact, I hope they’ll do a lot more of
these surveys – on the Lessons Learned, on where entities are in their v5
compliance program, etc. The only hope
of getting useful information on these topics is to gather it anonymously.
I urge you to take the survey, although you
need to first read the FAQ document and ponder what it means.
The views and opinions expressed here are my
own and don’t necessarily represent the views or opinions of Honeywell.
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