Tom Alrich's Blog

Through one of the many newsletters I receive, I came across a great document from Emerson called “Cybersecurity Guidebook for Process...

For those of you who know Dave, don’t panic at the title of this post: He isn’t dead! But he did retire from FERC at the end of January...

My post on FERC Order 843 got a lot of attention (as do all the posts having to do with FERC orders and NOPR’s), but several people ha...

I have more than once thought of renaming this blog as “Lew Folkerth’s Blog (assisted by Tom Alrich)”. I’m considering this more seriou...

Today, FERC issued Order 843 , approving CIP-003-7. The order has several notable features, which I’ll address one-by-one. The most...

Mike Johnson put out a very good post last week summarizing the comments that FERC received regarding CIP-013, in response to their Ja...

I recently wrote a post pointing out that when FERC approves CIP-003-7, the current CIP-003-6 (with its LERC and LEAP language describ...