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Carter Manucy

Carter Manucy

Senior Director of Cybersecurity at NRECA (National Rural Electric Cooperative Association), protecting cybersecurity for 900+ electric co-ops and 2024 E-ISAC Mike Assante Award recipient.

Sep 17, 2026

3:59
So you think there's room there to maybe understand the risks better? What do you think a co-op dealing with more of these assets coming under the grid, what do you think they need to understand better?
4:09
I'd highlight these three that I don't think they get enough attention.
4:12
First, vendor dependency risk.
4:15
If a co-op's EV network is managed through a third party platform and that platform experiences an outage or a breach, the co-op loses visibility and control over the assets to its own system.
4:27
A lot of co-ops just haven't thought through what that scenario looks like operationally or even who they'd call.
4:33
Second, there's a contract gap risk.
4:36
A lot of the agreements that these co-ops have signed with their DER developers or their EV vendors or demand management system platforms were negotiated without cybersecurity provisions in the contracts.
6:50
And do you think the risks are different for small versus large co-ops? Is this something where a large co-op has better visibility or more resources? Kind of talk about the differences by size for co-ops.

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