it's posted on the nerc website. but it demonstrated the preparation is there and that the plans have been exercised. as you heard before, november this past year, nerc led what i believe is the largest grid security exercise in the world. grid-x 3. over 300 entities in north america participated. over 4400 registered users. in my estimation probably closer to 10,000 actual participants. the distributive play portion where we're in a central control place and we inject the attacks outward and so the power companies are engaged in the exercise locally in their own control centers in their own substations and power plants. they're receiving the information from us. that portion -- i apologize for my voice. just getting over a cold. that portion lasted two days. on the second day there wauns executive table top that brought it together for senior execute ufs from industry and government. the scenario included cyber attacks, physical attacks, including active shooters, truck-mounted explosive devices and unmanned surveil

corporation, nerc. to implement new security measures in the act. however, given the potential for damaged to the nation's economy from a major attack on the grid, some might suggest that the greater focus on recovery is needed and should become as much a part of the a grid security strategy as the efforts to secure the grid. a focus on recovery should consider the mutual dependence and implications to other critical infrastructure of on electric grid failure and how quickly such impacts could proliferate if not planned for in advance. congress may also want to consider how the grid of the future will address cyber and physical security concerns. incorporating elements to increase system resiliency as it develops will aid in reducing vulnerability in the system. finally nerc has stated after major grid disruption, restarting generation and energizing transmission distribution systems will be a priority. prestoring service communication systems, fuel and water supply and treatment and hospital customers

it's posted on the nerc website. but it demonstrated the preparation is there and that the plans have been exercised. as you heard before, november this past year, nerc led what i believe is the largest grid security exercise in the world. grid-x 3. over 400 entities in north america participated. over 4400 registered users. in my estimation probably closer to 10,000 actual participants. the distributive play portion where we're in a central control place and we inject the attacks outward and so the power companies are engaged in the exercise locally in their own control centers in their own substations and power plants. they're receiving the information from us. that portion -- i apologize for my voice. just getting over a cold. that portion lasted two days. on the second day there was an executive tabletop that brought it together for senior executives from industry and government. the scenario included cyber attacks, physical attacks, including active shooters, truck-mounted explosive devices and unmanned surveill

it's posted on the nerc website. but it demonstrated the preparation is there and that the plans have been exercised. as you heard before, november this past year, nerc led what i believe is the largest grid security exercise in the world. grid-x 3. over 400 entities in north america participated. over 4400 registered users. in my estimation probably closer to 10,000 actual participants. the distributive play portion where we're in a central control place and we inject the attacks outward and so the power companies are engaged in the exercise locally in their own control centers in their own substations and power plants. they're receiving the information from us. that portion -- i apologize for my voice. just getting over a cold. that portion of the exercise lasted two days. on the second day there was an executive table top that brought it together for senior executives from industry and government. the scenario included cyber attacks, physical attacks, including active shooters, truck-mounted explosive devices and

went to investigate that incident in the ukraine, including a member of the nerc staff. the cyber threats are real but i think we're very different situation in the ukraine as compared to what we had in the united states in north america. security controls in north america are very different. we are the only industry with mandatory and enforceable reliability standards affecting physical and cybersecurity. we are currently in the fifth generation of our cybersecurity standards. they are risk-based standards based on nist type controls. they are adaptable. we have a very robust compliance monitoring and enforcement program. system operators use modern controlled to ensure the security of the system including separation of corporate and business systems from control systems. physical access controls, patch management, aggressive threat hunting and medication, and employ and contractor training, and many other measures that they take. take. we've established electricity senator courtney council at the highest levels of industry and government including ceos and top official

cauley, nerc runs and exercise on the failure of the grid. what scenario do you use? i will let you begin. >> thank you mr. chairman, for the question. as i mentioned in my presentation we do probably post estimated that is 10 times beyond any sort of realistic expectation in terms of the magnitude which is to test and shake us out and see what we can do. i think the difficulty in understanding the question is that there's many kinds of hazards that can cause outages. in fact, if you look at, we do a lot of data and analysis about what causes blackouts. that's one of our jobs. since 2011, so four years running in our data, the weather has been a top 10 causes of all major outages in north america. so we have that sort of a slowing. so the question for me, i phrase it as what kinds of things can cause outages from a few hours up to two to three days? there's a lot of things that can contribute toward that, and what kind of response capability we have. so could the storms come to be equipment failure, could be a number of things. i think as we get to the kaiser things w

it all began when the nerc invited the public to christen the largest and most advanced british researchl to date. they asked for names that were inspirational, however, a simple joke from a former bbc employee james hand quickly became the crowd favorite over more traditional names. hand offered an apology as the joke took on a life of its own which has spawned countless riffs like trainee mctrain face or cheesy mccheese face. now we're contemplating renaming our show squawky mc"squawk box." game for that? >> no. i like the boaty mcboat face. >> renaming a ship is said to be bad luck. >> oh. >> you do not want to do this. >> it's not named yet. >> not official. >> right. if you wanted to change it from boaty mcboat face, then -- >> squawk. >> you'd better be shurn. >> kearnee mckearn face. >> you can't rename a research vessel. >> mckernenin face. >> it sounds stupid. i was listening thinking the only people that voted were a bunch of millennials. they think it's funny. everything is a big joke. >> always throwing change. >> i think it's kind of funny. ask and you shall receive. shouldn