Speaker Biographies
Brian Allen - SERC Brian joined SERC Reliability Corporation in September 2021 as Manager, CIP Monitoring.
Brian served as a CIP Assurance Advisor in the NERC Grid Assurance group. In this position, Brian worked with the Assurance Team to provide oversight, guidance, and coordination in managing programs and processes to monitor, review, and evaluate program effectiveness of the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) Enterprise implementation of risk-based compliance monitoring and adherence to the NERC Rules of Procedure, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program, and approved delegation agreements. Brian joined the NERC CIP Assurance team in January 2019. Prior to NERC, Brian served as a Cyber Security Specialist at Georgia Systems Operation Corporation. In this role, Brian worked within Security Operations focusing on governance, risk, and compliance of the CIP Program.
Rick Dodd – SERC Rick Dodd has over 41 years management and technical experience in all aspects of IT and Information Security along with more than 14 years specializing in Critical Infrastructure Protection within the electric utility industry. Rick joined SERC as a Senior CIP Compliance Specialist within the Risk Assessment and Mitigation (RAM) team on July 1, 2019, and prior to that was with the former FRCC Regional Entity since January 1, 2013. His current responsibilities include assessing overall Registered Entity risk and working with Entities to review, accept, track, and verify their noncompliance activity and associated Mitigation Plans pertaining to issues or violations of NERC Reliability Standards. Prior to joining FRCC, he was a senior member of the DYONYX Energy Practice Team for 5 years, participating on NERC working groups and numerous client engagements relevant to the CIP Reliability Standard and NEI 08-09 including many engagements at Registered Entities throughout the continental US and Canada. During his 26-year tenure with Verizon Data Services, he also managed an Information Security team of more than 30 employees. He brings demonstrated expertise in gathering business requirements, business process analysis, setting policies and standards, trouble shooting, tuning, and system evaluation. His wide versatility in multiple computing environments, with a strong understanding of object-oriented technologies, web services and workflow technologies, complements the needs of the team. He has directed and participated in the selection of hardware and software, building proof-of-concept/pilot projects aiding in deployment of enterprise-wide systems. Rick is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and holds a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (MSCIS), a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and a Bachelor of Science in Professional Management from Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
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