Ethics
The disclosure of outage dates for Bowen Unit 2 to a Plant Franklin employee.
What is a violation of Separation Protocol?
Formed to help NERC advance the physical security and cybersecurity of the critical electricity infrastructure of North America
What is the Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC)?
Resulted in 50 million people without power in the early 2000's.
What is the blackout of August 14, 2003?
Alexia Borden
Meredith Lackey
Jeff Stone
Who are the OPCO Compliance Officers?
FRCC Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc.
NPPC Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc.
SERC SERC Reliability Corporation
WECC Western Electricity Coordinating Council, Inc.
MRO Midwest Reliability Organization
RF Reliability First
TRE Texas Reliability Entity
What are NERC Regional Entities?
Risk assessment
Interpretation and application
Program and process design and application
Controls design and testing
Disclosure and reporting
Monitoring, discussion and analysis
Communication and training
Information retention and record keeping
What are the program elements of ethics and compliance?
The supply chain standard.
What is CIP-013-1?
Authorized the creation of an audited, self-regulatory Electric Reliability Organization in North American.
What is the Energy Policy Act of 2005?
CY + 6
What is the Southern Company Retention Schedule for NERC Compliance documentation?
An application used to document internal control activities.
What is BWise (not Risk Vision)?
Hotline
Online
In-person
By mail
What are ways to contact the Concerns Program?
This process is used for Contractors reassigned or transferred with High or Medium Impact CIP access that no longer have a business need to access these areas in their new role.
What is the access revocation process?
Registered entities in this region were transferred to MRO and SERC as a part of its dissolution.
What is the Southwest Power Pool Regional Entity (SPP RE)?
This application identifies individuals prohibited from work at company locations.
What is BarWeb?
This violation involves the disclosure of non-public transmission information to a marketing employee.
What is a standards of conduct violation?
Employees have this obligation if they see a compliance violation.
What is a duty to act?
This publication communicates Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) awareness to those with cyber or unescorted physical access to Southern Company CIP Cyber Assets.
What is the SCS Operations Compliance Newsletter?
NERC's area of responsibility includes the continental United States and these countries.
What are Canada and Mexico?
Elements of this review include a search of state criminal databases, driver's licenses, and social security numbers.
What is the NERC CIP Employee Background?
NERC is subject to oversight by this agency in the United States.
Who is FERC?
Serves as a point of governance for the evaluation, implementation and execution of ethics and compliance program activities at an enterprise level and sets the tone for ethical and compliant behavior.
What is the Southern Company Ethics and Compliance Council (ECC)?
This must be maintained at all times by escorts of visitors to NERC CIP areas.
What is line of sight?
Annually assesses seasonal and long-term reliability.
Who is NERC?
This activity is predicted to cost the world over $6 trillion annually by 2021.
What is cybercrime?
The entity to contact at your corporate security office before propping open a door at an in-scope CIP Substation switch house.
What is the PSOT?