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Salt River Project (SRP), the U.S. third-largest public power utility, recently announced that it had teamed with Quantum Secure to help protect its facilities
Salt River Project (SRP), the nation’s third-largest public power utility, recently announced that it had teamed with Quantum Secure to help protect its facilities.
To that end, SRP will deploy Quantum Secure’s SAFE for Energy Facilities software tools for its physical identity access and compliance management including audit, remediation, and compliance to meet critical North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) critical infrastructure protection (CIP) regulations.
“As with most critical infrastructure organizations, compliance and reporting are a very important part or our security efforts,” said Jay Spradling, SRP’s security manager. “It is our hope that the Quantum Secure SAFE for Energy Facilities solution will not only make our compliance and reporting easier, but also provide a major step forward in streamlining our security efforts.”
According to a Quantum Secure, the SAFE for Energy Facilities software will help simplify NERC compliance regulations for SRP resulting in increased security, simplified management of CIP controls, and reduced costs for physical security.
More specifically, the software automates the compliance of key NERC standards CIP 004-3 through CIP 006-3, including specific controls related to authorized unescorted physical access to critical cyber assets, background checks, training, and enterprise-wide reporting.
Speaking on the deal, Ajay Jain, the president and CEO of Quantum Secure, said, “Our SAFE for Energy Facilities solution is a major step forward in the energy space.”
“As a chosen technology by several critical nuclear and non-nuclear labs of the U.S. Department of Energy, along with our other commercial energy customers engaged in production and distribution of gas and electricity, we are enabling utility companies and nuclear sites to systematically and cost-effectively improve their compliance and risk management posture,” Jain added.
SRP provides more than 940,000 people with energy from a wide-range of sources including solar, wind, hydro-electric, natural gas, and nuclear. In addition, SRP is the largest supplier of raw water in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
