NERC Compliance Software

Automatically coordinate, track, and assess activities to ensure compliance, maintain reliability, and meet stringent NERC and Regional standards. The NERC compliance software is pre-loaded with NERC standards and requirements. Responsibility for requirements, analyses, compliance/mitigation plans, and tasks are assigned, monitored, and documented in a central repository.

Monitor real-time progress and see status details instantly with management dashboards. Remain ready for regional NERC audits. Evidence, compliance narrative, and applicable policies and procedures are linked to each requirement and are always instantly accessible. Easily manage to change compliance needs.

The system quickly absorbs new/revised standards, notifications, and internal procedures, practices, or organization changes. Get instant, detailed understanding of “compliance status” and identify and manage risks at-a-glance with graphical management dashboards. The system easily scales to securely manage compliance for a single department or across multi-entity organizations.

Unburden your staff by automating your compliance processes with a single source of truth for user information. NERC compliance software can ensure all decisions are based in accurate and current data. This approach reduces the risk of errors and streamlines compliance processes by automating tasks. Reduce manual work and prioritize other essential responsibilities.

Stay current with our update service, which monitors NERC for new or revised reliability standards. AssurX then parses the information, including PDFs and RSAWs (Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets), into AssurX-ready format. Our NERC compliance software keeps your system up to date in minutes.

When a new update is available, Energy & Utilities customers receive e-notifications. They also receive all materials needed to update/import automatically everything needed to keep current. Reduces the burden of tracking and identifying newly posted NERC standards and RSAW documents on the NERC website. Automatically import NERC Standard, Requirement, Measure and Compliance Level data, Standard PDFs, and RSAWs.

Assessing compliance can be a challenging task; with AssurX, the complex activities are made simple. Choose the scope of the activities ranging from focused assessment of a single requirement to full certification and filing all applicable standards.

Select one or more standards/requirements. Then, identify the region and registered entity. You can choose to focus on compliance by function, location, department, or business unit. Select whatever granularity your entity needs at that time, across any desired period.

Monitor progress and see status details instantly with management dashboards, keeping all assessment-certification related tasks on schedule with automated notification and escalation integrated with email.

Cut down the time spent on RSAW documentation with AssurX’s automated RSAW feature—it fills in the RSAW template for you. Download an evidence package for a standard using reviewed/approved content in a single click.

Schedule and track evidence collection on a periodic basis for internal evidence collection or for required periodic report submittals. Set schedule frequency (weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc.) to collect evidence to meet one or more requirements.

The system automatically assigns collection tasks and collected evidence is linked to applicable regulatory requirement(s). The NERC compliance software sends notifications as tasks are due. It alerts supervisors of late tasks and review requests, and documents regulatory submissions.

Proper documentation is a cornerstone of NERC CIP compliance. AssurX software automates the documentation process, ensuring that all actions taken, from initial issue identification to the implementation of corrective and preventive measures, are thoroughly recorded. This documentation serves as evidence of compliance during audits.

AssurX’s NERC compliance software offers seamless integration with all your existing platforms and software, making compliance a breeze. Automate evidence gathering and streamline your workflow for effortless NERC standards adherence.

Develop internal controls to prevent, detect, and correct issues. Associate controls to regulations for tracking activities and evidence by regulation. Assess the effectiveness of the controls at scheduled intervals. Perform control tests in multiple environments and assign to multiple assignees and approvers.

Provides a single hub for NERC PRC standards compliance by gathering data related to physical devices and assets affecting the BES. This includes work orders, maintenance activities, test results, and supporting evidentiary documentation. Get real-time status for your NERC PRC compliance.

Dashboards visually indicate the state of PRC compliance status for all devices and assets across the utility. Simultaneously, automated alerts and notifications to supervisors expose trends towards non-compliance well before it occurs.

The system maintains a complete, audit-ready history of all devices, issues, and actions taken to maintain control and compliance. Retains all required PRC/Maintenance records and makes them accessible with the click of a button. Automated alerts and notifications warn staff before compliance lapses occur.

Stay on top of cybersecurity efforts with AssurX’s Patch Compliance Management solution. Begin with an asset repository for IT and OT assets maintained in AssurX or an external system. Perform asset classification per CIP-002 with a decision tree questionnaire that guides the user through the assessment. Our NERC CIP compliance software then reassesses the classification periodically or whenever relevant changes occur.

Maintain asset baseline, including information on software, firmware, patches, and open ports. For each patch cycle or as needed, assign patch source review tasks for known software/firmware. You can also seamlessly integrate our NERC compliance software with a patch discovery service. Create and monitor mitigation plans for patches that cannot be installed within the required timeframe.

Assign and track patch installation tasks, including verification/testing activities, or integrate with asset management software. Dashboards provide up-to-date status, access to relevant data, show compliance, and more, to ensure nothing is overlooked.

Manage CIP Access Change Requests to grant, modify, or revoke user access to one or more systems and security perimeters. Monitor user personnel risk assessments and CIP training dates. You can also integrate with the AssurX training management solution to provide CIP training.

Change requests include justification for access and necessary approvals in our NERC CIP compliance software. Track access provisioning tasks through completion. Results in a comprehensive revision history of all access records and generates access reports and metrics for managers and compliance purposes.

Integrate Active Directory with AssurX’s NERC compliance software for automated control over access to specific systems and data, in line with NERC CIP requirements. Don’t risk fines and chaos due to missed deadlines. You don’t have to struggle to keep track of tasks and stay accountable. With automated tracking and clear responsibility assignment, stay on top of everything effortlessly.

Be audit-ready with our NERC compliance software and avoid the risk of missing deadlines and facing penalties. Imagine a seamless workflow where every task is accounted for and everyone knows their responsibilities.

Assess and manage enterprise risk to ensure reliability, meet regulatory/compliance objectives, and drive operational excellence. Monitor and track risk-related activities, and perform evaluations of financial, operational, and compliance impact. Determine risks for small and large projects and state, FERC, or NERC compliance and regulatory requirements.

The FERC/NERC compliance software calculates probability, assigns priorities, and links risks to appropriate internal controls. Real-time graphical dashboards deliver risk and activity status, threat heat maps, and detailed trending and analysis metrics. The system seamlessly integrates with corrective action software to automatically launch and track the resolution of any issues. Preventing avoidable threats and reducing overall risks with our configurable NERC CIP compliance software.

Tired of cumbersome NERC compliance tasks? AssurX’s software seamlessly integrates with your existing platforms, automates data collection, and streamlines reporting for NERC standards. Manual processes reduce efficiency and exposes you to large fines and costly expenses.

Risk parameters, such as significance, likelihood, control, etc., can be flexibly defined for any activity. An automated system of notices and escalation alerts appropriate personnel of rising threats before they become problems.

Manage internal quality and compliance audits end-to-end. Audits are conducted after being planned and scheduled, findings are classified, and follow-up activities are assigned to managers. When all follow-up actions are addressed, a final report is issued and routed for closure—all in a closed-loop workflow. Automatically log audit findings, manage responses, and launch corrective actions.

Reports and dashboards provide live data for instant status and metrics. Automatic task assignment, escalation, and notifications to keep audits efficient and ensure essential activities and issues are appropriately handled and fully integrated with other quality management processes such as CAPA, compliance tracking, and change management. Stay audit-ready with a NERC CIP compliance software that helps you to keep track of everything.

Detect, correct, and prevent recurrence of regulatory violations, cyber incidents, equipment and test failures, procedural lapses, and more with a closed-loop corrective action tracking system that automates and streamlines the entire CAPA process. Issues initiated from any department are investigated, root causes identified, corrective/preventive actions planned and implemented across operations, and evaluated for effectiveness.

An automated alert system instantly notifies the proper personnel when a current or potential problem is identified. Set up checklists that assign corrective action tasks to specific personnel with deadlines and automatic follow-up that directly reports to supervisors. Fosters a “culture of compliance” through a corrective action process. This process extends across operations from incident identification through disposition and root cause analysis.

Dashboards with live metrics let you see at-a-glance what current or potential compliance or operational issues you may have. Fully integrates with other AssurX solutions such as risk management, compliance management, and internal controls.

Ensure that employees and contractors are up to date on training and adequately qualified to perform work at all times. Quickly identify, assign, and maintain unique training requirements and courses/materials for each employee or contractor. The software tracks training tasks, send users notification of upcoming and late training, and escalates any supervisors’ issues. It creates a permanent record and audit trail of personnel qualifications, training requirements, and histories, and other regulatory compliance obligations in one database.

Simple-to-use dashboards deliver fast access for administrators and a user-friendly way for trainees to access their assignments and materials and register for training. Paired with AssurX Document Management (or other document control software), the system automatically assigns training and notifies appropriate staff as each new or revised document is ready.

Seamlessly integrates with other AssurX applications such as CAPA or Compliance Management so training is automatically launched for events happening across operations.

Experience the power of seamless integration and automation in ensuring NERC compliance. Let our NERC compliance software handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on other matters without compliance headaches. Integrate with your HR and training software so you can have a fluid system that communicates with your existing workflow.

Creates a central library where critical documents are stored and manages the entire document lifecycle. Stay on top of change requests, redlining; approval routing; release, notification, and training. Easily organize documents into groups/categories for quick search and recall, using familiar folder views. Access is controlled so that only those who can view a given document can do so.

AssurX document control software provides a central repository for critical policies, procedures, instructions, or other documents. Used with the Compliance Management solution, it links specific documents to each requirement for fast, easy reference. Makes documents quickly accessible to prepare for and during audits

Our NERC compliance software is highly configurable. Paired with AssurX Training Management (or other learning management software), it automatically assigns training tasks and notifies staff as each new or revised document is ready.