BES Cyber Asset definition

BES Cyber Asset means a Cyber Asset that if rendered unavailable, degraded, or misused would, within 15 minutes of its required operation, misoperation, or non‐operation, adversely impact one or more Facilities, systems, or equipment, which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable when needed, would affect the reliable operation of the Bulk Electric System. Redundancy of affected Facilities, systems, and equipment shall not be considered when determining adverse impact. Each BES Cyber Asset is included in one or more BES Cyber Systems.**
BES Cyber Asset means a Cyber Asset that if rendered unavailable, degraded, or misused would, within fifteen (15) minutes of its required operation, misoperation, or non-operation, adversely impact one or more Facilities, systems, or equipment, which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable when needed, would affect the reliable operation of the Bulk Electric System. Redundancy of affected Facilities, systems, and equipment shall not be considered when determining adverse impact. Each BES Cyber Asset is included in one or more BES Cyber Systems.
BES Cyber Asset means a cyber asset that if rendered unavailable, degraded, or misused would, within 15 minutes of its required operation, misoperation, or non-operation, adversely impact one or more facilities, systems, or equipment, which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable when needed, would affect the reliable operation of the BES. Redundancy of affected Facilities, systems, and equipment shall not be considered when determining adverse impact.

Examples of BES Cyber Asset in a sentence

  • SCE’s RTU is a BES Cyber Asset and the Interconnection Customer shall cooperate with the SCE in implementing and adhering to required security protections in accordance with Applicable Reliability Standards.


More Definitions of BES Cyber Asset

BES Cyber Asset shall each have the meaning set forth in the Glossary of Terms Used in NERC Reliability Standards. For purposes of this provision, “Removeable Media” includes, but is not limited to, floppy disks, compact disks, USB flash drives, external hard drives, and other flash memory cards/drives that contain non-volatile memory.
BES Cyber Asset. (“BCA”) means a programmable electronic device, including the hardware, software, and data in the device, that if rendered unavailable, degraded, or misused, would within 15 minutes of its required operation, misoperation, or non-operation, adversely impact one or more facilities, systems, functions, applications, or equipment, and which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable when needed, would affect the reliable operation of the BES.
BES Cyber Asset means a cyber asset that if rendered unavailable, degraded, or misused would, within 15 minutes of its required operation, misoperation, or non-operation, adversely impact one or more facilities, systems, or equipment, which, if destroyed, degraded, or otherwise rendered unavailable when needed, would affect the reliable operation of the bulk electric system. Redundancy of affected facilities, systems, and equipment shall not be considered when determining adverse impact. Each BES cyber asset is included in one or more BES cyber systems. (A cyber asset is not a BES cyber asset if, for 30 consecutive days or less, it is directly connected to a network within an electronic security perimeter, a cyber asset within an electronic security perimeter, or to a BES cyber asset, and it is used for data transfer, vulnerability assessment, maintenance, or troubleshooting purposes.)