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require digital certificates to authenticate parties in the transaction. These two subcommittees worked
with the PKI subcommittee to understand the criteria for selecting the appropriate assurance level for
their applications.

Conclusion:

GlobalSign encourages any energy-market participant operating in North America to stay on top of
cybersecurity by allocating and applying appropriate resources to prevent, contain and mitigate both
cyber and internal breaches. GlobalSign also strongly encourages participants to join the ranks of NAESB
members, since access to standards like WEQ-012 allows organizations to leverage standard
development based on industry participants and technology subject-matter expertise. For details about
the WEQ-012 standards, interested parties should contact the office of NAESB @ [email protected] or
calling (713)-356-0060. For questions about this article or information about GlobalSign’s certificate
offerings, please contact Lila Kee at [email protected]

About The Author:

Lila Kee is chief product and marketing officer at GlobalSign, the
enterprise SaaS Certificate Authority (CA), where she drives product
vision and product marketing efforts for the global organization. Kee is
also an active participant in the North American Energy Standards
Board’s (NAESB) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) subcommittee, where
she holds a seat on NAESB’s Wholesale Electric Quadrant (WEQ)
Executive Committee and Board of Directors. As a board member, Kee
provides cybersecurity expertise and helps shape security policy and
technology standards for the energy sector, one of the U.S.' Critical
Infrastructures.

Kee brings 20 years of cybersecurity experience to NAESB, and under
her leadership, GlobalSign and NAESB began a relationship in 2011 that
has since helped to establish stricter cybersecurity standards for the
WEQ that will strengthen defenses against modern-day cyberthreats. In November 2012, Kee was
appointed to NAESB’s WEQ Board of Directors’ End-user Segment. Kee has helped to construct current
and future standards governing how vendors implement cybersecurity policies for digital certificates
used to secure business and critical infrastructure applications.

As a NAESB board member, Kee can speak from a position of neutrality on a wide range of topics, from
enterprise security and digital certificates to NAESB’s security standards for energy providers.

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