This course that helps participants understand how to prepare or perform a NERC CIP audit. During the course, participants learn about the structure, processes and available resources that pertain to monitoring registered entities’ compliance with NERC reliability standards. It explains the NERC compliance audit process and how to structure a compliance hierarchy that includes standards, requirements, controls, and assets. Participants will learn how to configure workflows for managing both internal and external standards, mapping regulations, developing controls, performing compliance audits, preparing, and implementing action plans, utilizing audit worksheets (RSAWs), identifying and remedying issues, and more. It is a comprehensive overview of the NERC CIP standards as required by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that helps participants understand how to prepare or perform a NERC CIP audit. During the course, participants learn about the structure, processes and available resources that pertain to monitoring registered entities’ compliance with NERC standards and introduces effective strategies for building a compliance program based on the NERC Compliance Monitoring Enforcement Program (CMEP).