Karta NERC Compliance Management Solution

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Karta’s NERC Compliance Management Solution is purpose-built for NERC compliance teams, workflows, and deliverables. You don’t have to worry about an ill-fitting solution to the highly specific processes of NERC.

Drill down into your real-time compliance posture

Fuel management decision-making with accurate information

Prioritize & automate compliance processes across your entire operations

Integrate NERC compliance management into field staff's daily activities

Decrease reactive compliance work

Empower your team for more value-add work and less mundane tasks

Increase accountability

Reduce duplication of effort

Facilitate secure access to compliance evidence from many document sources

Plan for and manage ever-changing NERC regulations

Isyourcompany challengedinany oftheseareas?

Watch our two-minute video to learn how our NERC Compliance Management solution can help you.

ReducetheburdenofmanualNERC complianceoroutdatedsoftwaresolutions

CommonNERCcompliancemanagementchallenges

Errors inherent in manual data entry

Knowledge gaps with staff changes

Onerous second job for field staff

Rushed audits halt higher-value work and cause stress

Misplaced or disorganized NERC evidence especially when managing multiple facilities

Inefficient use of time on menial, manual tasks

Failed audits resulting in expensive fines and disruptive sanctions

Lack of timely, accurate reporting for compliance decision-making

Keeping up with and preparing for new NERC standards

HowtheKartasolutionhelps

Curating ongoing NERC standards updates - We regularly update your NERC standard library, so teams don’t have to download and parse the standards on their own

Maintaining your evidence repository - No more dragging and dropping email attachments to folders or hoping files follow proper naming conventions. The structured evidence repository allows teams to quickly identify what they have, what’s missing, and what can be used to address multiple requirements.

Helping teams know what to do and when - Auto-generated task and obligation management can handle complex scheduling requirements and outbound communications in the centralized platform.

Informing leadership - Aggregated dashboards across all areas allow teams to report status on-demand and provide early indicators of potential missed activities and audit concerns

Collecting employee-reported NERC concerns & organizing for NERC self-reportingManage investigations related to potential noncompliance of NERC standards and export investigation results into the required NERC reporting template.

Canweprove we’redoingit right? Wherearethe hotspots? AnsweryourkeyquestionswithKarta’s

What’sonthe horizon?

WhatdoIneed todotoday?

What’sontheNERChorizon?

Karta’s NERC Compliance Management solution includes dashboards to help you visualize new and updated standards for your planning and preparation Use these dashboards to see:

Quarterly updates tracking NERC regulatory standards changes

Karta-managed updates to the NERC standards in the solution NERC standards subject to future enforcement or inactivation

By request: Complete workflows to start the implementation of new standards before the enforcement date

WhatdoIneedtodotoday?

For the field staff and managers:

Review open/overdue evidence requests

Review the calendar of recurring task assignments

Re-assign tasks or reviews if needed

For the NERC Compliance team:

Initiate and review status of evidence requests

Track progress of recurring task assignments

Add new assignments to the task inventory

Review trends and concerns

Canweprovewe’redoingitright?

Maintain your time-stamped, real-time evidence repository

Automate the evidence request cycle based on NERC-mandated timelines

Align evidence across multiple standards, where relevant

Wherearethehotspots?

Stakeholdertransparency

Receive, investigate, and assess potential areas of noncompliance

Analyze trends and work distribution

Assign remediation activities to address noncompliance issues and improve compliance program

Track root-cause analyses and incremental improvements

Share subject matter expert (SME) and leadership dashboards including indicators, such as:

Overutilized teams for evidence collection and task assignments

All requests and tasks in my department/team

Upcoming deadlines

In-tool collaboration & approvals history

Extensionsofthesolution

When the need arises, you can add other pre-built solutions, which can act independently of NERC compliance or connect where it makes sense, such as:

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MANAGEEVIDENCEREQUESTSFOR ANYNUMBEROFREGISTERED NERCENTITIES

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SCHEDULEONGOINGREVIEWS ANDTESTINGOFYOUR COMPLIANCENARRATIVES

Compliance narrative

Testing & findings

Evidence request

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REFERENCEYOURKEYCOMPLIANCE INFORMATIONFROMACOMMON EVIDENCEREPOSITORY

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5

MANAGEREMEDIATIONPLANSBASED ONISSUESOFNONCOMPLIANCE

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2

3 Remediation tasks Issues of noncompliance

Remediation plan

VIEWASUMMARYOFNERC COMPLIANCEFROMACOMMON DASHBOARD

Compliance summaries

Compliance narratives Recurring tasks Issues of noncompliance Open remediations

Karta:Ahighvoltagepartner

Our numerous implementations, deep understanding of the utility sector, and vast governance, risk and compliance (GRC) knowledge mean we get your regulatory environment, challenges, and corporate culture Check out the power behind the Karta team below.

RIGHT-SIZEDSOLUTIONS

SERVING CLIENTS OF ALL SIZES, WITH EMPLOYEE TOTALS RANGING FROM 10K+ TO

<100

80+

COMBINED YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY/GRC EXPERIENCE

HAPPYCLIENTS

~7,000 HOURS OF UTILITY PROJECTS DELIVERED

100% CLIENT RETENTION

11years

AVERAGE GRC YEARS OF EXPERIENCE FOR OUR TEAM

Platforms Partners

Top-tiertechnology

Karta’s NERC solution is built on two exceptional software platforms, which are trusted by hundreds of large enterprises worldwide for GRC and integrated risk management (IRM) needs, including utility and government organizations in North America to help manage multiple dimensions of risk in a single platform

Anetworkofexpertise

Karta’s solution development has been bolstered by ideas and needs from our client community, as well as utility industry experts We work closely with our partners at Ampyx Cyber and Archer Energy Solutions to ensure our software solution aligns with the needs of compliance teams just like yours.

Providers

Centralizeddata

We collaborate with leading data providers like RiskRecon and Tenable. When you license these additional products, we can seamlessly integrate their real-time data into your NERC Compliance Management solution, providing comprehensive and up-to-date views of your operational compliance status This enriched data empowers you to effectively identify NERC compliance risks and foster ongoing regulatory adherence

Oneplatform,manypossibilities

Retire and streamline from siloed, outdated technologies by integrating your key GRC workflows in a single powerful tool Expand your GRC ecosystem by taking advantage of these other solutions and products:

Platform

SUPPLYCHAINRISK

CIP-013: Cyber security, supply chain risk management

CIP-011: Cyber security, information protection

CIP-005: Cyber security, electronic security perimeter(s)

FAC-014: System operating limits methodology for the planning horizon

RECOVERY&RESILIENCE

CIP-008: Incident reporting & response planning

CIP-009: Recovery plans for BES cyber systems

CIP-014: Physical security

EOP-004: Event reporting

EOP-005: System restoration from black start resources

EOP-011: Emergency operations

PRC-023: Transmission relay loadability

IT&SECURITYRISK

CIP-002: BES cyber system categorization

CIP-003: Security management controls

CIP-008: Incident reporting & response planning

CIP-009: Recovery plans for BES cyber systems

CIP-011: Information protection

EOP-004: Event reporting

EOP-008: Loss of control center functionality

PRC-005: Protection system maintenance & testing

ENTERPRISE&OPERATIONALRISK

CIP-002: BES cyber system categorization

CIP-003: Security management controls

CIP-008: Incident reporting & response planning

PER-005: System personnel training

EOP-004: Event reporting

CONFIGURATIONCHANGES

CIP-007: Vulnerability monitoring & remediation

CIP-010: Configuration change management

TenableOTSecurity

License Tenable, and connect data to your platform and NERC Compliance data, including:

CIP-002: Discover & maintain an updated inventory of OT devices

CIP-003: Unauthorized OT environment activities

CIP-004: Unauthorized access attempts or suspicious changes

CIP-008: Cybersecurity threats through proactive monitoring, audit trail insights, & forensic support

CIP-005: Monitor remote access alert for potential perimeter breaches

CIP-006: Detects changes made to controllers through direct physical access

CIP-007: Rule-based anomaly detection & open port issues

CIP-009: Recovery planning, execution, & testing

CIP-010: Configuration change management & vulnerability monitoring

License RiskRecon, and connect data to your platform and NERC Compliance data, including:

CIP-013: Cyber security, supply chain risk management

Learn more about these solutions kartacorp.com/ecosystem

Had Karta just delivered us a solution with no opportunity to iterate, or discover and implement new requirements, we may not have had such a smooth rollout.

Director, NERC Compliance

We’re thrilled to be working with you and your team. It was obvious you all are accustomed to delivering top quality work products tailored to the customers’ processes, and even helping the customers where those processes are fully formed. Karta will up our game!

Director, NERC Compliance

I wanted to pass along my compliments and a huge appreciation shout-out for your team’s effort to get our “CIP Compliance Management” over the finish line. Establishing [the platform] as an approved CIP repository was a goal for my team, and you were available to address any concerns with establishing “CIP Orders” and working with my team and IT to ensure that the data was imported correctly (i.e., due dates) into “CIP Compliance Management.” You have been very helpful with validating our access matrix and ensuring our employees are set up correctly. Thanks again for the support!

NERC Compliance Manager

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