GRIDEX V PREVIEW PRESENTED BY Fred W Bonewell Chief Security Safety and Gas Solutions Officer CSSGO October 28 2019 Informational Update OBJECTIVES TAKEAWAYS o EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES OF GRIDEX V o PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS NATIONAL TABLETOP GRID SECURITY EXERCISE 2 AGENDA o o o o BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF GRIDEX V EXERCISE OBJECTIVES LOGISTICS HOW THE EXERCISE WORKS PARTICIPANTS 3 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE GridEx V is an unclassified large-scale electricity grid security and crisis response exercise conducted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC with coordination from the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center E-ISAC This is a training opportunity for all stakeholders to test their incident response plans It satisfies a number of compliance requirements It also tests our ability to execute collaboratively across the enterprise CPS Energy participated in GridEx II 2013 GridEx III 2015 and GridEx IV 2017 4 EXERCISE OBJECTIVES o Test and evaluate our response plans o Satisfy a number of compliance requirements o Expand our local and regional response capabilities o Practice response management in a multi-agency response environment o Evaluate the readiness of response resources o Engage interdependent sectors o Practice team and enterprise communication protocols o Practice media and public affairs response o Increase supply chain participation o Involve vendors suppliers key solution partners o Engage senior leadership 5 EXERCISE LOGISTICS o o Wednesday November 13 2019 8AM - 5PM Modules 1 2 Thursday November 14 2019 8AM - 5PM Modules 3 4 We expect the largest group to date Villita Assembly Building 401 Villita St San Antonio Texas 78205 6 EXERCISE TYPE This is a functional two-day exercise conducted in four modules lasting 4 hours per module with a one-hour turnover briefing each day In functional exercises events are projected through an exercise scenario with event updates that drive activity at the management level A functional exercise is conducted in a realistic real-time environment however deployment of personnel and equipment is simulated GridEx IV 2017 7 EXERCISE SCENARIO The exercise scenario will involve both physical and cyber security attacks all simulated on gas and electric utilities across North America National scenario injects will be provided by NERC's Exercise Control ExCon located near Washington D C These injects will be viewed by participants through the exercise website SimulationDeck Specific scenario injects for CPS Energy are drafted by the Scenario Planning Team and will be implemented during exercise play by the Exercise Controllers E-ISAC Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center 8 EXERCISE PARTICIPANTS HOSTED BY CPS ENERGY o o o o o o o o o o o Alamo Area Council of Governments Alamodome Bexar County o Sherriff's Office o Office of County Manager o Office of Emergency Management Bexar Metro 9-1-1 Brooks City Base Department of Homeland Security ERCOT FBI San Antonio Field Office HEB Joint Base San Antonio Port Authority San Antonio o o o o Public Utility Commission City of San Antonio o Police Department o Fire Department o San Antonio Water System o San Antonio International Airport o Office of Emergency Management o Chief Information Security Officer o San Antonio Housing Authority US Secret Service Texas Division of Emergency Management 9 GridEx IV 2017 CPSO cgg Thank You 4 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu