Pennsylvania PUC Requires Retail Suppliers To Carry $5 Million Cybersecurity Insurance, Sign Data Security Agreement At One Utility

August 30, 2019

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The Pennsylvania PUC has approved a tariff filing from National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (NFGD or "Company") which requires retail suppliers and other entities to sign a data security agreement and carry $5 million in cybersecurity insurance as a condition of accessing the utility's systems, including web portals

The adopted tariff reads that, "As a condition of access to customer information via publicly available Company business systems, including but not limited to web portals, the Company will require parties requesting such access to sign a Data Security Agreement and require that parties carry and maintain Cybersecurity insurance in an amount no less than $5,000,000 per incident."

The Data Security Agreement, which includes a Self-Attestation form, "is patterned after the DSA the Company is currently using in its New York service territory but is modified to reflect Pennsylvania rules and regulations," NFGD said

"Because they are active in the Company’s New York territory, the majority of NGSs and Customer Agents have already executed the New York DSA. The Company will require these parties to execute a Pennsylvania DSA but does not expect that it would require additional Cybersecurity insurance provided that the data interconnect between the Company and these parties is identical," NFGD said

The data security requirements will apply to retail natural gas suppliers (NGSs) that operate under Company’s MMNGS and SATS rate schedules and MMT, DMT & DMLMT transportation customers that procure their own gas supply ('standalone customers'), their EDI providers and other business parties who access utility business systems on behalf of the NGSs and standalone customers ('Customer Agents')

Docket R-2019-3010744

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