Case Study: Kissimmee Utility Authority achieves proactive NERC CIP compliance and streamlined security operations with Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire Log Center

Kissimmee Utility Authority - Customer Case Study

Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) is a municipal electric utility serving about 70,000 customers and operating 13 substations across 112 miles of fiber with tens of thousands of networked endpoints. Facing evolving NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards, KUA needed a way to assess and baseline its environment, monitor firewalls and user activity in real time, maintain auditable logs, and automate processes to avoid overwhelming administrative overhead.

KUA deployed Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire Log Center across its infrastructure in under a week; Tripwire Enterprise consolidates and analyzes security data and continuously records asset changes, while Tripwire Log Center centralizes logs from devices, servers and applications to produce audit-ready evidence. The deployment streamlined operations with automated oversight, created comprehensive logs across servers, switches, firewalls and users, enabled tracking and correlation of individual user activity, sped troubleshooting via real-time event viewing, and shifted KUA to a proactive, standards-ready security posture.

Kissimmee Utility Authority

Jim Harnois

SCADA Supervisor