AWS for Industries

Kristine Martz

Author: Kristine Martz

Kristine Martz is a member of the AWS security assurance team working as a power and utilities sector specialist. She is a 12-year veteran of the power and utility industry. Kristine helps utility customers adopt cloud solutions for regulated workloads in a secure and compliant way.

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Modernize your Utility’s SOC and build better security with Splunk Cloud Platform on AWS

Utilities are responding to increasing threats and vulnerabilities targeting both familiar enterprise information technology (IT) channels and others outside of traditional systems, such as ransomware attacks on business processes, and operational technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities that straddle the cyber-physical world. Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) are seeing the security landscape change and are […]

AWS Config adds new conformance pack template for North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) BES Cyber System Information (BCSI)

AWS Config now offers a new conformance pack that helps utilities using AWS for BES Cyber System Information (BCSI) to manage configuration compliance of their AWS resources at scale – from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting – using a common framework and packaging model. The Operational Best Practices for NERC CIP BCSI conformance […]

Updated guide: Understanding NERC CIP compliance for power and utilities

Power and utility companies recognize the benefits of cloud technology to meet the demands of the changing grid landscape and digital transformation. For use cases in scope under the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards, the industry is working to accommodate the use of cloud technology through proposed modifications to […]