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NERC Cover-Up

A NERC Cover-Up? Who Put the Electric Grid at Risk?

Posted on April 1, 2018April 2, 2018 by Michael Mabee

    A NERC Cover-Up? This incident has the olfactory bouquet of a NERC cover-up: On February 28, 2018 the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) submitted a proposed “Notice of Penalty” to the federal government against an “Unidentified Registered Entity.” This entity was responsible for a massive data breach that, according to NERC, posed a “serious…

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Frank Gaffney Interviews Dr. Peter Vincent Pry

Posted on March 31, 2018March 31, 2018 by Michael Mabee

    Frank Gaffney of Secure Freedom Radio interviewed Dr. Peter Vincent Pry on March 28, 2018. Click Here to Listen. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the House Armed Services…

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FERC Grid Cybersecurity

Grid Cybersecurity: The Critical Infrastructures Are Under Attack

Posted on March 25, 2018November 27, 2019 by Michael Mabee

  Click Here for PDF Copy   COMMENTS OF MICHAEL MABEE Submitted to FERC on March 25, 2018 Michael Mabee respectfully submits comments on FERC Docket No. RM17-13-000, Supply Chain Risk Management Reliability Standards.   Background: I am a private citizen with expertise on emergency preparedness, specifically on community preparedness for a long-term power outage….

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Electric Grid Cyber Security

The Fight for Electric Grid Cyber Security

Posted on March 3, 2018March 4, 2018 by Michael Mabee

    “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis Recently I wrote about our campaign to fight for electric grid cyber security. The battle played out last week before an obscure federal…

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FERC Grid Cybersecurity

My Comments to FERC on Grid Cyber Security

Posted on February 23, 2018February 25, 2018 by Michael Mabee

    [Click Here for Background Info] [Click Here for the filed PDF copy: FERC Comment Docket RM18-2-000 (Mabee)] February 23, 2018   Comments submitted in FERC Docket RM18-2-000 Cyber Security Incident Reporting Reliability Standards   Dear Chairman McIntyre, Commissioner Chatterjee, Commissioner LaFleur, and Commissioner Powelson, and Commissioner Glick:   Background: I am a private citizen…

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Secure the grid

What You Can Do to Secure the Grid (#SecureTheGrid)

Posted on February 17, 2018February 25, 2018 by Michael Mabee

  NOTE: The Deadline for comments is 2/26/2018 [Click Here to read my submission to FERC] Citizens can help secure the grid It is easy to feel helpless down at our level (and by “down at our level” I mean citizens). The electric grid is vulnerable to numerous threats and we know (because the Senate…

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GridEx

GridEx: Is This Exercise Enough to Protect Critical Infrastructures?

Posted on November 18, 2017February 18, 2018 by Michael Mabee

GridEx bottom line upfront GridEx is a biennial exercise run by North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The latest iteration, GridEx IV, was held on November 15-16, 2017. Most Americans have never heard of GridEx and didn’t even know it was taking place. If fact, most people don’t really have a clear understanding of what…

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Metcalf Substation attack

PG&E Metcalf Substation Attack: Guarding the Grid

Posted on April 28, 2014March 17, 2019 by Michael Mabee

PG&E Metcalf Substation Attack Video report details the PG&E Metcalf Substation attack near San Jose in April of 2013: Guarding the Grid by KSN TV. https://ksn.com/2014/04/28/guarding-the-grid/ WICHITA, Kansas – Electricity powers our homes and businesses. It is a lifeline to keep our infrastructure running smoothly across America, but a year ago, the power industry received…

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Transformers: Attack on only a few could cause nationwide blackout

Posted on March 12, 2014March 3, 2019 by Michael Mabee

On March 12, 2014 the Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reported that an attack on just 9 key transformers could cause a nationwide blackout. “The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country’s 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day, according to a previously unreported federal analysis….

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oseph McClelland of FERC

VIDEO: Joseph McClelland of FERC: “Grid collapse is unacceptable”

Posted on May 20, 2013December 17, 2017 by Michael Mabee

Joseph McClelland, Director, Office of Energy Infrastructure Security, FERC discussing what FERC is doing about threats to the grid at the Electric Infrastructure Security Summit in Washington, DC on May 20, 2013.

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