On January 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy's ("DOE's") Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability ("OE") released the Energy Sector Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Guidance, which was developed in response to the overall Cybersecurity Framework released by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology ("NIST") in early 2014. The guidance offers best practices for the development by privacy sector energy companies of a comprehensive cybersecurity framework.
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