Energy cyber resilience
Talk to IGXEnergy essential services depend on operational technology, IT, suppliers and field operations. The mandate becomes urgent when a disruption crosses shared technology, suppliers, locations, workforce or service boundaries faster than impact can be understood.
NIS outcomes, controls and improvement plans connected to service delivery and operational dependencies show how each duty supports the essential service.
Energy operators of essential services must manage and evidence the security and resilience of network and information systems under the UK NIS regime and sector guidance. Across the enterprise, local continuity plans can all appear complete while shared single points of failure remain invisible at enterprise level.
Connect essential services, assets, processes, risks, controls and remediation in one governed model. Scenario testing and investment focus on the dependencies most able to exceed impact tolerances or service commitments.
- Clearer resilience priorities, stronger Ofgem/NIS assurance and accountable improvement
- Earlier visibility of concentration and single-point failures
- Faster disruption impact analysis
- Better targeted continuity and resilience investment
- More credible testing, recovery and exit evidence
Ofgem regulates electricity and gas operators of essential services and monitors their compliance with cybersecurity requirements under the UK NIS Regulations.
Ofgem: Cybersecurity
The NIS Regulations 2018 require operators of essential services to take appropriate and proportionate technical and organisational measures to manage risks to the security of network and information systems.
GOV.UK: NIS Regulations 2018