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Know your Diamonds from your pencils
An in-Depth Conversation About Physical Security Strategies, Dealing with Emerging Threats, Robotic Dogs, Preventing Theft, Where Regulations are Heading and More

Know Your Diamonds from Your Pencils: Talking All Things Physical Security with SERC’s Travis Moran

Curtis Marquardt Jr.: Can you tell our readers more about your background and what you do for SERC Reliability Corporation.? Travis Moran: I began my career in law enforcement, first as an analyst with Interpol. After several years, I joined the U.S. State Department as a special agent, where I served for six-and-a-half years. I […]
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The most commonly used decision-making process is conjecture-based; we use it countless times daily. We go through life making decisions based on assumptions, speculation and whimsy, with little thought to impact or outcomes. However, when it comes to security, especially substation security, our decisions have consequences. For these decisions, we need a better decision-making method. We need a reliable technique that can produce sound decisions and stand up to intense scrutiny.

Substation Security Challenges: The Importance of the Critical Decision Making Process

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The most commonly used decision-making process is conjecture-based; we use it countless times daily. We go through life making decisions based on assumptions, speculation and whimsy, with little thought to impact or outcomes. However, when it comes to security, especially substation security, our decisions have consequences. For these decisions, we need a better decision-making method. We need a reliable technique that can produce sound decisions and stand up to intense scrutiny. General Colin Powell once said: “You can’t make good decisions unless you have good information and can separat…

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An Interview with Mark Aysta, Duke Energy’s Managing Director of Enterprise Security

Forging a Secure Tomorrow: Duke Energy’s Path to a More Resilient Future

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An Interview with Idaho National Laboratory’s Andrew Bochman About How Climate Impacts Need to be Planned for and Acted on Today

How ‘Global Weirding’ is Creating New Threats for Utility Security Professionals

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How A New Zealand-Based Company is Hoping to Revolutionize the Ways Utility Organizations can Quickly Verify Worker Security Credentials, Skills and Training Qualifications

The Storm Work Security Conundrum

Interview with Dan Stemp and Alex Wakeland As storm restoration work becomes more frequent, so do the challenges of verifying that the workers that flock to the disaster areas are qualified to do the work as well as meet …
Strong perimeter protection can be one of your best investments. But don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s a set-it-and-forget-it endeavor.

Perimeter Control as the First Line of Defense

For many utilities, physical security begins at the door or the parking lot. However, robust facility protection starts at the perimeter. But we often abandon this defense resource to aesthetics, budget restraints, or misplaced values. This makes a secure perimeter the least considered and most often overlooked element of facility security. However, resilient perimeter protection should be your…
The Biennial Drill and Tabletop Brought Together 252 Organizations to Test Their Security and Resiliency and Discover Areas of Need

GridEx VII Reveals Continuing Challenges of Post-Covid Hybrid Work, Communications and Technology

In November 2023, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and its Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) conducted the seventh biennial GridEx. “GridEx is one of the largest and most comprehensive security drawings that are done in any critical infrastructure sector,” said Manny Cancel, senior vice president and CEO of E-ISAC. “It has been going on for more th…

What is More Critical than Utilities?

“Why launch a utility security magazine?” is a question I’ve heard a few times as we’ve worked over the past year to launch Utility Security. And my best response to that question is to ask this: When you hear the words “Flint, Michigan,” what is the first thing that comes to mind? I would bet…

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