Technical Talk with RF

ReliabilityFirst (RF) offers a regularly scheduled monthly call to provide entities and stakeholders with a forum for addressing topics and questions relevant to reliability, resilience and security.   

While RF Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will provide presentations and updates, they will not address entity-specific questions and issues. These types of questions can be handled offline by using the RF Assist Visit program. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mike Hughes, Entity Engagement Manager, 216-503-0617.  

Event Details

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Agenda

Lessons Learned from FERC’s 2026 CIP Reliability Audits 

Alan Herd, Deputy Director, Division of Cyber Security, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

Alan Herd will review key lessons from FERC staff’s 2026 Commission-led CIP Reliability Audits report, including considerations related to registration and CIP compliance for generation resources, BES cyber system identification and categorization, and access to BES cyber systems and BCSI facilitated by super intelligence tools. 

ERO Organization Certification: Process and Expectations 

Sam Ciccone, Principal Reliability Consultant, and David Sopata, Principal Reliability Consultant, Entity Engagement, RF 

Learn how the ERO Organization Certification Program evaluates an entity’s readiness to reliably perform critical functions. Sam Ciccone and David Sopata will walk through certification activities, common review triggers, the typical process and timeline, CIP considerations, and what entities can expect throughout the review.