Guidance on identity management for electric firms is being sought after by NIST. Comments are being accepted on a security guide for power firms by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, which is a division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.The goal of the “Identity and Access Management for Electric Utilities” guidebook is to assist energy businesses in implementing more centralized identity management to improve the security of their systems.According to a Department of Homeland Security report that NIST referenced in fiscal 2014, the reason for almost 10% of the cybersecurity incident responses for industrial control systems was either poor authentication or abuse of access authorization.NIST’s draft guide highlights the benefits of facility access control via a single console.
