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We’ve assembled Energy and Utilities resources including brochures, data sheets, guides, videos, testimonials, podcasts, and webcasts for your review. If you need any additional information, please contact us.

Brochures | CASE STUDY | DATA SHEETS

ASSURX ECOS - ENERGY COMPLIANCE SYSTEM

AssurX ECOS helps manage operations, identify risk, and demonstrate compliance across all critical operations through automated workflow processes that connect compliance and risk data. More importantly, AssurX ECOS easily scales to securely manage compliance for a single department or across multi-entity organizations.

ASSURX ECOS-GRC - GOVERNANCE, RISK, AND COMPLIANCE

AssurX ECOS-GRC is a complete Governance, Risk, and Compliance solution for managing evolving regulatory requirements, enabling businesses to mitigate risks, increase efficiency, and maintain continuous compliance.

ASSURX ECOS - ENERGY COMPLIANCE SYSTEM

AssurX ECOS helps manage operations, identify risk, and demonstrate compliance across all critical operations through automated workflow processes that connect compliance and risk data. AssurX ECOS easily scales to securely manage compliance for a single department or across multi-entity organizations.

BEST PRACTICE GUIDE - SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATED NERC COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

This document provides an overview and guide of what to consider when evaluating an automated compliance management system. In addition, it explores best practices for building your business case, aligning corporate objectives, stakeholder commitment, requirements gathering, shortlisting vendors, and vendor selection.

BEST PRACTICE GUIDE - SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATED NERC COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

This document provides an overview and guide of what to consider when evaluating an automated compliance management system. It explores best practices for building your business case, aligning corporate objectives, stakeholder commitment, requirements gathering, shortlisting vendors, and vendor selection.

BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE

Like many electric utilities, Basin Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC) was struggling to keep up with an ever-expanding number of NERC requirements and tasks associated with meeting those requirements. Implementing AssurX Enterprise Energy Compliance System (ECOS) allowed the organization to improve visibility and efficiency of their compliance program, while setting the stage for future process improvements.

VELCO - VERMONT ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY

Comparing the pre- and post-AssurX audits, preparation labor hours were drastically reduced—from 24.5 hours to just under 11 hours per requirement. Not only was it a significant reduction in labor hours, but the overall data collection and coordination was much smoother and easier.

POWERSOUTH ENERGY COOPERATIVE

PowerSouth needed an energy compliance system to demonstrate ongoing compliance with over 400 requirements under 80 standards set forth by NERC. AssurX helped to automate PowerSouth’s NERC compliance management and documentation systems, replacing paper and spreadsheets with a centralized system of integrated processes.

VELCO - Vermont Electric Power Company

PATCH COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

AssurX Patch Compliance Management helps manage critical infrastructure protection as part of a defense in depth strategy.

NERC STANDARDS UPDATE SERVICE

The NERC Standards Update Service keeps customers current with new and revised NERC Reliability Standards delivered rapidly to update any AssurX NERC Compliance Management system.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Overview of Professional Services offerings and details about methodologies.

WHITEPAPER

Regional entities are placing a growing emphasis on Internal Controls to gauge compliance performance. Non-adherence to NERC and FERC standards can lead to significant fines. Implementing an Internal Controls program is crucial for upholding grid reliability and ensuring adherence to federal and regional regulations.

This whitepaper offers guidance to utilities on establishing robust Internal Controls using automated compliance management software and outlines the expectations for a NERC audit. Learn how to enhance compliance performance and avoid penalties by strengthening Internal Controls within your organization.

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PODCAST

Our own Kathryn Wagner joined Waterfall and Andrew Ginter for a podcast discussing how we can save time and money by automating compliance processes such as NERC CIP, and the TSA Pipeline & Rail Directives, among other regulations. Take a listen!

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ATCO Electric has acquired and implemented the AssurX Compliance application beginning in 2019 . We are utilizing the application for evidence storage and have established a module to process our Management of Change needs for various CIP assets and standard requirements. ATCO is very pleased with the efficiency and document control that the application has provided. The workflows incorporated ensure that we remain compliant to the existing standard."

Engineering/support are top notch, professional and very easy to work with. They respond quickly to my requests. I love working with them!”

AssurX offered a solution that would meet our need to maintain and demonstrate NERC compliance with many changing requirements and assist us in achieving our continuous improvement goals into the future.”

We’re using AssurX for a number of compliance processes. It’s exciting because our end users—even outside of the Compliance Department—are coming up with ideas on their own for new ways to use the system and they’re loving it.”

PG&E was extremely impressed with the whole process and support from AssurX. They were open and honest from day one and demonstrated exactly what we were looking for.”

The system’s flexibility allows us to configure it to meet our company-specific processes and workflows and it has strong reporting and data drill down capabilities for both users and managers.”

If you're looking to manage your compliance activities, or need a corrective action management system, I would not hesitate recommending AssurX.”

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ASSURX FOR ENERGY & UTILITIES ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

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A WECC-REGION UTILITY PROVIDER TALKS ABOUT ASSURX

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LARGE GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY USING ASSURX FOR COMPLIANCE

ON DEMAND WEBINARS

HOW TO PREPARE FOR A NERC AUDIT (WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND OR YOUR EVIDENCE)

Preparing for a NERC audit can feel overwhelming, like navigating a complex puzzle with high stakes, endless acronyms, and mountains of spreadsheets. Industry expert Scott Crow shares proven NERC audit prep strategies to help you achieve compliance with confidence, avoid burnout, and streamline your process without drowning in paperwork.

OUT OF CONTROL INTERNAL CONTROLS

An effective internal controls program is essential for navigating regulatory requirements and audits while adapting to an ever-changing regulatory environment.

MANAGING (MORE THAN JUST) COMPLIANCE WITH TSA PIPELINE SECURITY DIRECTIVES

TSA pipeline security guidance and directives require a range of plans, policies, and controls. Adhering to these requires collecting, monitoring, and acting upon a vast array of data related to IT and OT systems.

THE MANY CHALLENGES OF MANAGING NERC CIP-004 COMPLIANCE: THE NEVER ENDING STORY

The cyber threat landscape is continually evolving, with increasingly sophisticated attacks. CIP-004 regulations require utilities to adapt in order to address new types of threats, making it difficult for organizations to stay compliant while also protecting against cutting-edge cyber threats.

MANAGING (MORE THAN JUST) COMPLIANCE WITH TSA PIPELINE SECURITY DIRECTIVES

AUTOMATING ASSET CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR NERC CIP-010 R1

Explore the functionality required for an effective Asset Change Management solution that enables compliance with CIP-010, and how the AssurX ECOS addresses those challenges.

SIMPLIFY NERC CIP REPORTING USING AUTOMATION

Streamline efforts by standardizing the data requested and shares best practices for data and evidence mining, extracting data from the source and transposing it into the expected format for the ERT to improve the overall quality of cybersecurity programs.

PATCH MANAGEMENT FOR NERC CIP COMPLIANCE: TURNING AWARENESS INTO ACTION

See first-hand how AssurX ECOS software centralizes and automates required processes and actions for evaluation, validation, and installation of public and private patching.

IMPLEMENTING AN ENTERPRISE NERC COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

AssurX and Tri-State Generation explain how they prepared for and deployed a consolidated system that automates ad-hoc evidence submissions, evidence reporting, corrective actions, and other compliance activities.

SIMPLIFYING NERC COMPLIANCE BY AUTOMATING RELIABILITY STANDARD AUDIT WORKSHEETS (RSAWS)

This webinar demonstrates how utilizing a dynamic RSAW management system enables Registered Entities to be spot check and audit-ready with current NERC requirements.

AUTOMATING DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT & EVIDENCE COLLECTION

Learn how automating document management & evidence collection ensures that your documents and evidence prove compliance with NERC standards. Concludes with a brief AssurX product demonstration.

LEVERAGING AN ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR NERC AND REGIONAL COMPLIANCE

See how AssurX ECOS integrates solutions for meeting NERC and regional mandates with automated, connected, configurable workflow processes. Focus areas include documents and evidence, assessments, audits and RSAWs, issue mitigation, and internal controls.

EXPLORING THE 3 MOST VIOLATED NERC CIP STANDARDS

Learn the reasons cited for NERC CIP non-compliance, strategies to improve security & compliance throughout your organization, and how the AssurX ECOS solution automates and streamlines compliance and cyber security activities.

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