NERC CIP Software Minimum Requirements

North American Reliability Corp. (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Software Minimum Requirements:
- Coordinated management of compliance across all legal entities and functional roles.
- Relational database which serves as system of record for legal entities, functional roles and corresponding NERC and regional standards, requirements and measures, ISOtariffs, etc.
- Configurable tasks, roles and statuses.
- Automated task assignment and tracking based on regional and NERC audit schedules.
- Flexible and intuitive workflow for standards, requirements, measures and compliance planning.
- Automated audit preparation and submission of information to Regional Reliability Organizations (RRO's).
- Audit trails and automated document indexing, storage and retrieval.
- Ad hoc and canned reporting and statistics on all compliance management data.
- Ability to effective date the addition and deletion of functional roles and legal entities for historical reporting.
- Robust search capabilities.
- Ability to automatically populate workspaces and repositories with template forms, documents and folder structures.
- Ability to manage and view compliance information by voluntary, pending, approved or mandatory standards.
- Configurable event based notification and escalation processes.
- Ability to add/modify/delete navigational elements of the application to suit business needs.
- Ability to expand and collapse standard requirement sections and sub-sections for granular or aggregated delegation and reporting.