GridEx VII 2023

This Event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 14th at 10am to Wednesday, November 15th at 5pm ET

Welcome to GridEx VII 2023 Training Registration Page

* Note – this is not for NERC Certified System Operator Continuing Education Hours

NERC will be conducting its seventh sector-wide grid security exercise, GridEx VII, in November 2023. GridEx VII is designed to exercise the resilience of the North American electricity system in the face of a coordinated attack from a nation-state adversary. The first grid security exercise took place in November 2011, and has continued to occur every other year providing an opportunity for asset owners and operators across North America to test their incident response plans and operational preparedness. These geographically distributed exercises were designed to execute the electricity sector's crisis response to simulated coordinated cybersecurity and physical security threats and incidents, to strengthen utilities' crisis response functions, and to provide input for lessons learned. GridEx VII is scheduled for November 14-15, 2023.

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Objectives

• The objectives for GridEx VII are:
• Activate incident, operating, and crisis management response plans
• Enhance coordination with government to facilitate restoration
• Identify interdependence concerns with natural gas and telecommunications sectors
• Exercise response to a supply chain-based compromise to critical components
• Identify common mode and cyber operation concerns across interconnections

Training

GridEx VII is a training opportunity for industry stakeholders to take part in the exercise from their place of work over two days and receive sequenced exercise injects and interact with exercise tools that detail simulated scenario conditions. Based on this information, participants will respond with simulated internal and external information sharing activities, as well as practice and review internal response procedures. An exercise control cell, based in the Washington, D.C. area, will manage the distributed play, monitor the exercise, and gather lessons learned.

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This registration page is for those Individuals who wish to track Continuing Education Hours for industry related certifications, not NERC Certified System Operator Certification credits. Many IT, physical security, business continuity, and disaster response certifications have ongoing CEH requirements that align with the objectives and learning activities of this exercise. In addition, most industry certifications require the submission of audit records to support an individual's ongoing certification renewal process. This event registration page has been established for players to register and then obtain a certificate of participation record. Please Register now if you would like a downloadable certificate of participation.