End-to-end NERC CIP-002 through CIP-014 readiness for Generator Owners, Transmission Operators, and Balancing Authorities. Compliance consulting, OT-aware penetration testing, and 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service that reads your ICS telemetry — not just your IT stack.
NERC CIP is a suite of 12+ standards governing cybersecurity for the Bulk Electric System across the United States, Canada, and parts of Mexico. Enforced by NERC under FERC authority, with regional entities — WECC, MRO, RF, SERC, Texas RE, NPCC — running the audits.
Every Registered Entity must categorize its BES Cyber Systems (CIP-002), lock down the Electronic Security Perimeter (CIP-005), harden and monitor systems (CIP-007), rehearse incident response (CIP-008), and manage vulnerabilities (CIP-010). Audit findings can reach $1.5 million per day, per violation.
Q-Sec's team has walked through enough audits to know what evidence a Regional Entity auditor actually accepts — and what gets returned for remediation.
We map your environment against each applicable CIP standard, build the evidence binder, and stay with you through Regional Entity audit and mock audit cycles.
Compliance consulting, penetration testing, and 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service — priced flat, delivered by the same Q-Sec team. We've worked with enough Regional Entity auditors to know what they actually want to see.
BES Cyber System categorization, ESP and PSP architecture review, CIP-013 supply chain program, RSAW authoring, mock audits, and evidence binder preparation.
CIP-010 R3 active vulnerability assessments delivered without taking your control system down. IT/OT boundary, remote access, and ESP testing aligned to NIST SP 800-82 guidance.
24/7 SIEM tuned for OT and IT telemetry, CIP-007 R4 security event monitoring, and CIP-008 reportable-event detection with the 1-hour E-ISAC / CISA runbook pre-built.
We've engineered out the handoffs. One team, one timeline, one evidence pipeline. Ten business days to onboard.
Review your asset inventory, impact ratings, and applicable CIP standards.
Engineers validate categorization, map ESPs/PSPs, and identify audit-sensitive gaps.
Controls implemented, CIP-010 vulnerability assessment run, documentation updated.
RSAW-aligned evidence binder reviewed the way a Regional Entity auditor would.
SOC keeps watch on CIP-007 R4 events. Next audit cycle starts where the last one ended.
Audit-ready evidence, OT-safe testing, and a SOC that actually reads ICS logs — not a generic managed SIEM repurposed for utilities.
Specific engagements vary. Client names available under NDA.
Few utilities live on CIP alone. Federally-linked systems, insurance requirements, and TSA pipeline directives all overlap. Q-Sec builds one program that satisfies all of them.
CIP-010 active vulnerability assessments demand techniques that won't take a relay offline. We align every engagement to NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 3 — industrial control systems security guidance — so your auditor and your operations team both sign off.
Utilities with pipeline ops also face TSA Security Directives. Groups with European interconnects face NIS2. State PUCs add their own reporting rules. One Q-Sec program maps controls across them — no duplicate evidence.
Most NERC CIP consultants arrive with a binder full of boilerplate and no idea what an HMI is. Our engineers read ICS telemetry fluently — and write the evidence the way auditors read it.
Engagements are priced flat. Generating 50 MW or 5 GW — the fee doesn't change. No retainer creep, no hourly surprises.
Our engineers know NIST 800-82. We've tested inside ESPs without knocking out a relay. Your operations team will actually talk to us.
When you call, you reach our SOC in Warsaw — not a chatbot or an outsourced queue. Human analysts, verified escalations, minutes not hours.
Every artefact we produce is formatted the way Regional Entity auditors want to receive it. No re-writing, no translation layer.
Incidents happen. The problem is not knowing about them. We make sure you do — fast, with context. No FUD. No vendor lock-in language.
SOC, MDR, Managed SIEM, and compliance consulting in one place. No stitching together vendors. No compliance tool that doesn't talk to your SOC.
Get a scoping call with a Q-Sec engineer. We'll tell you exactly where your CIP posture stands, which standards are most audit-sensitive, and what needs to happen before the next Regional Entity cycle — before you commit to anything.
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