Case Study: Essential Power achieves NERC CIP compliance and real-time threat detection with Tripwire

Essential Power - Customer Case Study

Essential Power, a wholesale power generator and marketer, faced urgent cybersecurity and compliance challenges: they needed to meet NERC CIP requirements on a tight five-month timeline, deploy preventive and detective controls against attacks, centralize log monitoring with automated alerts and historical storage, and implement security configuration and change-management processes.

Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire Log Center delivered integrated configuration management and log/event management to provide deep endpoint visibility, automated security hardening and real-time alerts. As a result, Essential Power met NERC CIP compliance within five months, automated reporting and security processes, gained instant notifications of malicious activity and anomalous traffic, and significantly reduced manual log review while improving audit readiness.

Essential Power

Dominick Birolin

Network Engineering & Cyber Security Lead