Dear public power utility leaders:

I am sending you this message to request your participation in a program for sharing of timely and actionable cyber and physical threat information.  On November 16th of last year, I reached out to APPA members to encourage registration with and use of the Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ES-ISAC), a secure portal to engage in proactive, two-way information sharing with the ES‐ISAC, the federal government, and other utilities about incidents and threats to the power system.  

Attached and pasted below is a letter from the ES-ISAC requesting 24/7 emergency contact information for your Security Operations Centers, Network Operations Centers and Electric System Operations Centers.  The letter also requests that any personnel interested in accessing the ES-ISAC’s Private Portal sign up at the links provided.

 

APPA staff supports the ES-ISAC as a robust and effective delivery mechanism for incident communications and government-industry coordination; please ensure appropriate personnel within your utility have provided the contacts requested to facilitate this information sharing. If you have not already signed up for the portal, please designate a key staff member to do so.

Should you have any questions about this request, the APPA point of contact will be Nathan Mitchell, who can be reached at 202-467-2925 or nmitchell@publicpower.org.

Mark Crisson

President and CEO

American Public Power Association

1875 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 1200, 

Washington, DC 20009-5715

To read the letter from ES-ISAC requesting 24/7 emergency contact information for your Security Operations Centers,  Network Operations Centers and Electric System Operations Center,  please click here.