Thursday, May 6, 2021

The PIV card webinar recording is available!

Last month, I participated in an Energy Central webinar with XTec, Inc. The subject of the webinar was “How to Improve Security and Reduce NERC CIP Compliance Costs Using Smart Identification”. You can view the recording here.

In case you haven’t seen anything about this, here’s my brief summary:

1.      PIV cards are the identification technology used by the entire federal government, as well as the military (where the term is CAC card). It’s based on a single card that controls your access to physical facilities and to systems.

2.      You can realize big security improvements from implementing PIV card use in your organization. Probably the most important of those improvements can be summarized in three words: No more passwords.

3.      Along with those security improvements, you will find that your NERC CIP compliance burden will be significantly reduced – as I discuss in detail in the webinar.

4.      PIV cards are already used in all nuclear power plants and almost all federally-owned electric utilities. So this isn’t a brand-new technology for the power industry.

I hope you’ll watch the webinar!

Any opinions expressed in this blog post are strictly mine and are not necessarily shared by any of the clients of Tom Alrich LLC. If you would like to comment on what you have read here, I would love to hear from you. Please email me at tom@tomalrich.com.

 

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