Michael Bardee
Former Director, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Michael Bardee worked most of his career at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). He served for five years as Director of FERC’s Office of Electric Reliability, overseeing the approval and enforcement of regulations to help promote the reliability and cybersecurity of the electric grid. He also served as FERC’s General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel. In both positions, he oversaw the Office of General Counsel’s advice to FERC on its responsibilities for economic regulation of energy markets, as well as authorizations of new natural gas pipelines and hydroelectric facilities. Mr. Bardee received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Oklahoma University and a juris doctor degree from New York University School of Law.
More than 1,000 companies sell cybersecurity products to electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada. This project is designed to organize and evaluate these vendors, and their products and services, to make it easier for utility companies to make informed decisions on products that meet their specific cybersecurity needs.
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Protect Our Power has identified more than 80 topics related to Best Practices for Cybersecurity Solutions. For each topic, we will provide a short overview, a list of the vendors who provide products or solutions that address that topic, and a link to the university or universities evaluating those vendor offerings.
Universities, colleges and research labs are conducting valuable research on vendor product offerings and solutions that address a broad range of cybersecurity issues and challenges. The results of these analyses are published here and will be updated as new information becomes available.
More than 1,000 suppliers and vendors provide hardware and software solutions to the utility industry to address cybersecurity issues and threats. Those vendors are listed here, grouped according to the cybersecurity topic that their product offerings address.