The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) serves more than 300 million people in North America as the electric reliability organization under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In 2013, the FERC approved changes and additions to Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards, also known as CIP v5, which are a set of requirements for securing the assets responsible for operating the bulk power system.

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