KARTA'S NERC CIP COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Our NERC CIP (North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection) Compliance Management Solution helps electric utilities comply with NERC CIP regulations with confidence and efficiency.

The solution is built on best-in-class IRM software and has been customized specifically for NERC compliance, to give you:

  • Improved visibility into your compliance posture through customized dashboards
  • Improved efficiency as manual compliance tasks are automated
  • Increased staff accountability as incomplete tasks are automatically escalated
  • Superior management decision making as customized reports bring real-time information
  • More efficient and less stressful audits as NERC evidence is more easily organized and accessed through our virtual evidence repository
  • Higher-value work for expensive field staff resources by integrating NERC compliance into day to day tasks
  • Better audit outcomes resulting in fewer expensive fines and reputation loss

PURPOSE-BUILT ON LEADING ENTERPRISE-LEVEL IRM SOFTWARE

Our solution is available on two world-class NERC software solutions: Archer and Onspring. Both are highly configurable. As part of our process, we’ll recommend which platform is the best fit with your requirements, business maturity and current and future states.

PURPOSE-BUILT WORKFLOWS

Developed in close collaboration with AESI experts in NERC regulatory compliance obligations, our NERC Compliance Solution manages multiple dimensions of risk on a single platform, and automates your compliance processes to save you time, reduce costs and deliver accurate real-time data.

As part of our compliance solution, we have applied industry-specific terminology and configured workflows based on NERC-defined requirements. This helps with user adoption and makes your compliance management tasks far easier. These purpose-built workflows include:

Creation of applicability collections for responsible entities

Interaction with each requirement

Storage of information from different sources in an evidence repository

Creation of remediation plans based on findings

Creation of audit summaries such as RSAWs

NERC IRM solution brochure

A SOLUTION THAT ADDRESSES YOUR NERC COMPLIANCE CHALLENGES

Utilities work within a tough regulatory landscape where there is growing emphasis on compliance oversight, including those related to NERC. Following our proven process for planning, customizing and implementing your NERC Compliance Solution, we’ll help you tackle your greatest challenges so that you feel confident that you are compliant.

  • Decentralized difficult-to-extract data and evidence
  • Compliance processes spanning multiple functions and facilities
  • Resource constraints
  • External demands from auditing bodies
  • Changing and expanding regulations
Find Archer’s endorsement of our solution hereNERC on ArcherNERC on ONSPRING

CUSTOM-BUILT FOR A PERFECT FIT WITH
YOUR UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS

To build your customized Karta NERC IRM Compliance Solution, we follow a hyper-efficient, thorough process that guarantees a fast time-to-value.

In close collaboration with your team, we delve deep you’re your requirements and processes. Once built, we validate the design through testing, which is done together with you, to ensure the solution works perfectly from day one. Lastly, we equip your team with an online learning center to help your users quickly get comfortable with the solution.

EXCELLENT SOLUTIONS EVERY TIME WITH KARTA ASCEND

Our proven formula, Karta Ascend, consistently delivers well-designed solutions on-time and on-budget—and is how we avoid the pitfalls and pain you may have experienced elsewhere.

  • Proven process
  • Deep technology expertise
  • Curated IRM solutions

”I wanted to pass along my compliments and a huge appreciation shout-out for your team's effort to get our “CIP Compliance Management” over the finish line. Establishing Archer as an approved CIP repository was a goal for my team and you were available to address any concerns with establishing “CIP Orders” and working with my team and IT to ensure the data was imported correctly (i.e.; due dates) into “CIP Compliance Management.” You’ve also been very helpful with validating our access matrix and ensuring our employees are set up correctly in the Archer user groups. Thanks again for the support!

NERC Compliance ManagerEnterprise-level electrical power generation utility

”I had to write to share that Angelo has been an extremely valuable and indispensable player in our Archer enhancement project. We always know we’re in good hands when we work with Karta.

Manager, Emergency Management & Business ContinuityEnterprise-level electricity company

”Things are going really well with Jonathan and Alex! They are both so capable and responsive to our requests and are providing excellent advice and expertise. As an example, they’ve developed a kick-butt solution for a risk register pilot with one of our city departments. Next, we’ll present it to the enterprise risk management team and I’m confident they will be as impressed as I am.

Project Manager, Corporate SecurityMunicipal government

”I typically do not like to give "exceptional" ratings across the board. However, our experience with Karta has been exceptional in every way. We are working on configurating the NERC Compliance Management Solution in our Archer GRC system, and the Karta team has been professional, knowledgeable and accommodating.

Director, NERC Reliability AssuranceLarge US energy company

”Today will be my last full day working. Tomorrow I turn in my badge. I started my first full time job after college in April 1980. I am fortunate to have had a great career and now it’s time to disconnect and enjoy life. During that time there were only a handful of instances when I got to work with a stellar group of people like all of you. It made my time here so much more productive and enjoyable. I wish you all the best! If you ever get down to Georgia, please contact me!

Anonymous, large US energy company

NERC COMPLIANCE QUICK START

Faster time-to-value! Save 6-12 months and get value out of the system in 45 days vs implementing an in-house NERC compliance management program.

Highlights:

  • Purpose-built for NERC Compliance, with the framework and specifications provided by a leading North American NERC consulting firm 
  • Built upon an industry-leading code-free, drag-and-drop GRC/IRM software platform
  • SaaS deployment: no infrastructure or hardware is required
  • Budget-friendly yearly payment plan
  • Web-based training and user guides included ensuring high user acceptance
  • Deployment by Karta team with over 30 years of electric utility experience
  • Quarterly updates for NERC standards subject to future enforcement

What’s included:

  • SaaS/Hosting fees – 1 production and 1 non-production instance 
  • Ability to link confidential and sensitive documents on local secure server access
  • Installation, set-up, and configuration 
  • Training for one administrator (or business user) plus end-user training 
  • Database encryption – in-motion and at rest 
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Looking to enhance your compliance program and have questions? Connect with us by email. Having worked with many organizations on NERC IRM implementations, we’re happy to share what we know and help you find the right solution.

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