The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) is requiring that members of the bulk power system implement protections against a vulnerability that could be exploited to cause physical damage to critical systems that provide electricity. Specifically, NERC has issued a recommendation to the industry on the AURORA vulnerability which provides new sensitive and clarifying information regarding the nature of AURORA. The recommendation requires entities to report on efforts and progress by Dec. 13, with updates every six months until mitigation is complete.

Since the incident in June 2007, the NERC AURORA Technical Team has been working with subject matter experts in the federal community, and has now highlighted detailed engineering data and new understandings of the issue. The mitigation elements that have been recommended fall into two broad categories: Protection and Control Engineering Practices and Electronic and Physical Security Mitigation Measures. NERC has now completed a technical library that entities can use to understand the complexities of AURORA at an engineering level, and made the access and availability of that information a priority.