Standards and Regulations

Alert Standard Format (ASF) Specification
This specification defines remote control and alerting interfaces that best serve clients' OS-absent environments.

NERC Cyber Security Standards
This report addresses the biggest question facing utilities following the adoption of new North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) cyber security standards – where to begin? It is vital for utilities to address these standards, since some of the greatest vulnerabilities in electric utility networks lie in the systems that ensure their continuous operation and electric reliability.

Telecontrol equipment and systems - Part 5-6: Guidelines for conformance testing for the IEC 60870-5 companion standards
Specifies methods for conformance testing of telecontrol equipment, amongst substation automation systems and telecontrol systems, including front-end functions of SCADA. Facilitates interoperability by providing a standard method of testing protocol implementations. Is expected to minimize the risk of non-interoperability.

Telecontrol equipment and systems - Part 5-601: Conformance test cases for the IEC 60870-5-101 companion standard
Describes test cases for conformance testing of telecontrol equipment, Substation Automation Systems (SAS) and telecontrol systems, including front-end functions of SCADA. Will facilitate interoperability by providing a standard method of testing protocol implementations.

Telecontrol equipment and systems - Part 6-602: Telecontrol protocols compatible with ISO standards and ITU-T recommendations - TASE transport profiles
Is a technical specification describing the transport profiles for the IEC 60870-6 series over WAN with reference to international standardized profiles used by distributed SCADA/EMS applications in control centres, power plants and substations.

Wind turbines - Part 25-1: Communications for monitoring and control of wind power plants
Gives an overall description of the principles and models used in the IEC 61400-25 series of standards. The IEC 61400-25 series deals with communications between wind power plant components such as wind turbines and actors such as SCADA Systems. It is designed for a communication environment supported by a client-server model.

Power systems management and associated information exchange - Data and communications security - Part 3: Communication network and system security
Specifies how to provide confidentiality, tamper detection, and message level authentication for SCADA and telecontrol protocols that make use of TCP/IP as a message transport layer.