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Your Environment, Your Risk: Building an OT Risk Management Program You Can Defend
Policy Pulse Patrick Miller Policy Pulse Patrick Miller

Your Environment, Your Risk: Building an OT Risk Management Program You Can Defend

There is no rulebook for securing an OT environment, and there never could be. Two utilities can make entirely different choices and both be defensible. Here is how to build an OT risk management program you can stand behind: map your environment, rank the consequences you will not tolerate, choose controls deliberately, and document why, so you can defend every decision an auditor asks about.

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What Is a Computational Load Entity?
Policy Pulse Patrick Miller Policy Pulse Patrick Miller

What Is a Computational Load Entity?

A large AI data center used to be just a customer of the grid. On July 16, 2026, FERC changed that, directing NERC to create the Computational Load Entity, a new class of registered entity subject to mandatory federal reliability standards. A plain-English guide to what the category is and why it exists, and the anchor for the AI Reliability Boundary series.

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