Case Study: Western Farmers Electric Cooperative achieves faster compliance and stronger cybersecurity with Fortra Tripwire

How WFEC Brings Power to Half a Million Americans with Tripwire Security

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), a generation and transmission cooperative serving more than 550,000 residents in Oklahoma and New Mexico, needed help maintaining NERC CIP compliance and managing cybersecurity across its IT/OT environment. WFEC turned to Fortra’s Tripwire solution to replace manual spreadsheet-based processes and strengthen device hardening and validation.

Fortra, through Tripwire, helped WFEC automate baselining and validation, cutting tasks that once took hours down to minutes. The solution became a broader security, operations, and compliance tool for WFEC, improving efficiency and supporting standards such as NIST while helping the cooperative better harden its devices.

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative

Trae Norman

Information Security Supervisor