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NERC CIP Compliance Assessments

A growing suite of free compliance assessment tools for electric utilities, designed to evaluate your BES Cyber System security program against NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection standards. Each assessment is tailored to your impact level and generates a detailed gap report with actionable recommendations.

Tailored to Low, Medium & High Impact
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What is NERC CIP?

The NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards are a set of mandatory reliability standards developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to protect the Bulk Electric System (BES) from cybersecurity threats. Compliance is enforced by NERC regional entities and violations can result in significant financial penalties.

CIP standards apply to electric utilities, transmission operators, generation owners, balancing authorities, and reliability coordinators across North America. The standards cover everything from asset identification and access control to incident response, recovery planning, and supply chain security.

4Tutela's NERC CIP assessment tools are organized by the specific standards most critical to your compliance program. Use the full CIP assessment (CIP-002 through CIP-015) for a broad posture evaluation, or use the individual standard assessments for deep-dive gap analysis on specific requirements.

🟢 Low Impact
BES Cyber Systems not meeting High or Medium thresholds. No discrete asset identification required, but CIP-003 cyber security plan obligations apply.
🟡 Medium Impact
BES Cyber Systems meeting Attachment 1 Part 2 criteria. Most CIP standards apply — full identification, personnel training, access controls, and incident response required.
🔴 High Impact
Control Centers and major BES facilities. All CIP standards apply, including CIP-012 (Control Center communications), CIP-014 (physical security), and CIP-015 (INSM).
CIP Standards Covered
CIP-002BES Cyber System Categorization
CIP-003Security Management Controls
CIP-004Personnel & Training
CIP-005Electronic Security Perimeters
CIP-006Physical Security
CIP-007Systems Security Management
CIP-008Incident Response
CIP-009Recovery Plans
CIP-010Config Change Management
CIP-011Information Protection
CIP-012Control Center Communications
CIP-013Supply Chain Risk
CIP-014Physical Security — Transmission
CIP-015Internal Network Security Monitoring
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Full CIP Assessment
NERC CIP Compliance Assessment Tool
Low Medium High
Evaluate your BES Cyber System compliance posture across all applicable NERC CIP standards from CIP-002 through CIP-015 — tailored to your impact level. Ideal for a comprehensive compliance health check and annual self-assessment.
~15 min Up to 65 questions CIP-002 to CIP-015
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CIP-002 Deep Dive
NERC CIP-002 Assessment Tool
Low Medium High
You need to know what you have before you can protect it. A comprehensive assessment covering all CIP-002-5.1a requirements — R1 identification, R2 senior manager approval, R3 60-day updates, and Low Impact obligations — with every question mapped to a specific Attachment 1 criterion or requirement reference.
~10 min All R1, R2, R3 sub-requirements Attachment 1 criteria mapped
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Additional CIP Standard Assessments
Deep-dive assessments for individual NERC CIP standards are in development — including CIP-007 (Systems Security Management), CIP-010 (Configuration Change Management), CIP-013 (Supply Chain), and CIP-015 (INSM).
Coming in 2026
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