Solutions
Cybersecurity program solutions for regulated environments.
NRC and NERC CIP Cyber Regulation & Inspection Support
The Challenge
Inspection windows are short and the documentation burden is high. When evidence is scattered, interpretation is inconsistent, or prior responses are hard to locate, regulated teams struggle to respond with confidence.
The CRS Answer
We organize evidence, interpret cyber program requirements, prepare well-organized, traceable responses, and reduce the burden that inspections place on internal teams. Our work is designed to withstand scrutiny — before, during, and after an inspection. Experience across key cybersecurity regulations, guidance, standards, and methodologies, including: 10 CFR 73.54 • NRC Regulatory Guide 5.71 • NEI 08-09 • NEI 10-04 • NEI 13-10 • NIST SP 800-53 • EPRI Technical Assessment Methodology (TAM) • NERC CIP
CDA Assessment & Documentation Support
The Challenge
CDA assessments can be difficult to maintain across a mature nuclear cybersecurity program. Inconsistent methodology, incomplete documentation, changing system configurations, and assessment outputs that are difficult to compare or validate can create programmatic and regulatory challenges.
The CRS Answer
CRS supports CDA assessments and reassessments through asset identification and scoping, technical assessment, security control evaluation, design and documentation review, gap identification, and development of traceable, review-ready assessment documentation.
Our experience includes 10 CFR 73.54, NRC Regulatory Guide 5.71, NEI 08-09, NEI 13-10, NIST SP 800-53, and EPRI Technical Assessment Methodology (TAM).
We improve CDA assessment quality, clean up inconsistent documentation, and create traceable, review-ready assessment outputs that support program oversight and regulatory review.
Cybersecurity Program Improvement & Finding Recovery
The Challenge
Cybersecurity findings can reveal broader weaknesses in program implementation, documentation, security controls, procedures, or governance. Addressing the immediate issue without identifying the underlying cause can leave organizations vulnerable to recurring findings and continued regulatory scrutiny.
The CRS Answer
CRS helps organizations evaluate cybersecurity findings, identify underlying program and documentation gaps, develop and prioritize corrective actions, and strengthen the processes that contributed to the issue.
Our support can include finding evaluation, root cause and extent-of-condition support, corrective action development, documentation and procedure improvement, security control review, program assessments, and regulatory readiness. The result is a more structured, traceable, and defensible approach to finding recovery and long-term cybersecurity program improvement.
Operational Technology (OT) & ICS Cybersecurity Implementation
The Challenge
Cybersecurity requirements developed for traditional IT environments do not always translate directly to operational technology (OT) and industrial control system (ICS) environments. Legacy equipment, system availability, vendor dependencies, limited maintenance windows, and operational and engineering constraints can make conventional cybersecurity approaches impractical or introduce unintended operational risk.
The CRS Answer
CRS helps organizations translate cybersecurity requirements into practical implementation strategies for OT and ICS environments. Our team considers asset functionality, system architecture, operational dependencies, engineering constraints, and regulatory requirements when evaluating and implementing cybersecurity controls.
Our support can include security control implementation, network and system architecture review, asset and connectivity evaluation, vulnerability management, secure configuration, compensatory measures, documentation, and cybersecurity modification support. The goal is to strengthen cybersecurity while maintaining the safety, reliability, and availability of critical operations.
Cybersecurity Compliance & Program Intelligence Systems
The Challenge
Critical cybersecurity and compliance knowledge is often distributed across procedures, assessments, regulatory responses, corrective actions, historical documentation, and subject matter expert experience. Manually locating and interpreting this information can be time-consuming and inconsistent, while personnel turnover can result in the loss of valuable institutional knowledge.
The CRS Answer
CRS develops controlled cybersecurity compliance intelligence systems that help organizations organize, retrieve, analyze, and apply existing program knowledge more effectively. These systems can bring together cybersecurity procedures, assessments, regulatory history, corrective actions, and other program information to improve knowledge retrieval, trend analysis, evidence traceability, and consistency.
Where appropriate, AI, automation, and analytics can be incorporated to support information retrieval, analysis, and evidence-supported response development while maintaining expert oversight, controlled source information, and clear human accountability.
Corrective Action Program (CAP) & Cybersecurity Trend Analysis
The Challenge
Corrective Action Programs (CAPs) can contain years of cybersecurity-related conditions, findings, corrective actions, and operating experience. Without structured analysis, recurring issues and emerging trends can be difficult to identify, limiting an organization’s ability to recognize program weaknesses, prioritize corrective actions, and demonstrate effective cybersecurity program oversight.
The CRS Answer
CRS helps organizations identify, categorize, and analyze cybersecurity-related CAP data to uncover recurring issues, adverse trends, common causes, and areas requiring additional attention. We help transform historical corrective action information into actionable program intelligence that supports prioritization, management oversight, regulatory readiness, and continuous cybersecurity program improvement.
Cybersecurity Training, Mentoring & Workforce Development
The Challenge
Effective cybersecurity programs depend on personnel who understand cybersecurity requirements, program processes, technical environments, and documentation expectations. Inconsistent training, personnel turnover, and reliance on tribal knowledge can create knowledge gaps, increase errors, and make it difficult to maintain consistent program performance.
The CRS Answer
CRS helps organizations develop and sustain capable cybersecurity teams through structured training, mentoring, cross-training, qualification support, and knowledge transfer. Our experienced personnel work alongside client teams to strengthen understanding of cybersecurity requirements, program processes, assessment methodologies, documentation practices, and real-world implementation.
This approach helps organizations accelerate new-hire development, reduce reliance on tribal knowledge, preserve institutional knowledge, and maintain cybersecurity program continuity through personnel and organizational transitions.
Cybersecurity Project Management & Delivery Oversight
The Challenge
Cybersecurity projects in nuclear and regulated environments must balance regulatory commitments, technical requirements, project schedules, budgets, quality expectations, and operational constraints. Without disciplined project management and delivery oversight, scope can expand, milestones can slip, costs can increase, and critical cybersecurity work may not reach a complete, documented, and review-ready state.
The CRS Answer
CRS provides cybersecurity project management and delivery oversight to help organizations plan, coordinate, execute, and complete complex cybersecurity initiatives. Our support includes project planning and scheduling, scope and resource management, stakeholder coordination, budget and cost oversight, quality management, risk and issue tracking, documentation, and delivery oversight.
We maintain focus on accountability, communication, quality, and completion so cybersecurity projects produce documented, review-ready outcomes that support operational needs, program objectives, and regulatory commitments.