ML19100A007

Information Request for the Cyber-Security Baseline Security Inspection, Notification to Perform Inspection 05000348/2019013; 05000364/201901

ML19100A007
Person / Time
Site:	Farley
Issue date:	04/10/2019
From:	Scott Shaeffer NRC/RGN-II/DRS/EB2
To:	Kharrl C Southern Nuclear Operating Co
References
IR 2019013
Download: ML19100A007 (9)

See also: IR 05000364/2019001

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

April 10, 2019

Mr. Charles Kharrl

Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc.

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant

7388 North State Highway 95

Columbia, AL 36319

SUBJECT: JOSEPH M. FARLEY NUCLEAR PLANT - INFORMATION REQUEST FOR

THE CYBER-SECURITY BASELINE SECURITY INSPECTION,

NOTIFICATION TO PERFORM INSPECTION 05000348/2019013;

05000364/2019013

Dear Mr. Kharrl:

On August 12, 2019, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will begin a baseline

inspection in accordance with Inspection Procedure (IP) 71130.10P Cyber-Security,

Revision 0 at Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2. The inspection will be performed to

evaluate and verify your ability to meet the Milestone 8 (i.e., full implementation) requirements

of the NRCs Cyber-Security Rule, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 73,

Section 54,

Protection of Digital Computer and Communication Systems and Networks. The onsite portion

of the inspection will take place during the weeks of August 12, 2019, and August 26, 2019.

Experience has shown that baseline inspections are extremely resource intensive, both for the

NRC inspectors and the licensee staff. In order to minimize the inspection impact on the site

and to ensure a productive inspection for both parties, we have enclosed a request for

documents needed for the inspection. These documents have been divided into four groups.

The first group specifies information necessary to assist the inspection team in choosing the

focus areas (i.e., sample set) to be inspected by the cyber-security IP. This information should

be made available via secure site (i.e., Sharepoint, Certrec) no later than June 10, 2019.

The inspection team will review this information and, by July 1, 2019, will request the

specific items that should be provided for review.

The second group of additional requested documents will assist the inspection team in the

evaluation of the critical systems and critical digital assets (CSs/CDAs), defensive architecture,

and the areas of the licensees CSP selected for the cyber-security inspection. This information

will be requested for review via secure site (i.e., Sharepoint, Certrec) before July 15, 2019.

The third group of requested documents consists of those items that the inspection team will

review, or need access to, during the inspection. Please have this information available by the

first day of the onsite inspection, August 12, 2019.

C. Kharrl 2

The fourth group of information is necessary to aid the inspection team in tracking issues

identified as a result of the inspection. It is requested that this information be provided to the

lead inspector as the information is generated during the inspection. It is important that all of

these documents are up to date and complete in order to minimize the number of additional

documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection.

The lead inspector for this inspection is David Strickland. We understand that our regulatory

contact for this inspection is Gene Surber of your organization. If there are any questions about

the inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector at 404-997-4440 or

via e-mail at David.Strickland@nrc.gov.

This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection

requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, control number 3150-

0011. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a

request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document

displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,

of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosure will not be available

electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly

Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Scott M. Shaeffer, Chief

Engineering Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-348; 50-364

License Nos. NPF-2; NPF-8

Enclosure:

Security Inspection Document Request

cc: See Page 3

C. Kharrl 3

cc:

Cyneetha Evans

Site Security Manager

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant

7388 North State Highway 95

Columbia, AL 36319

_ML 19100A007_ SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE FORM 665 ATTACHED

OFFICE RII/DRS/EB2 RII/DRS/EB2

SIGNATURE DWS5 SMS

NAME D.STRICKLAND S.SHAEFFER

DATE 4/ 9 /2019 4/ 10 / 2019

E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO

Inspection Report: 05000348/2019013; 05000364/2019013

Inspection Dates: Weeks of August 12, 2019, and August 26, 2019

Inspection Procedure: IP 71130.10P, Cyber-Security, Revision 0

Reference: ML17156A215, Guidance Document for Development of the

Request for Information (RFI) and Notification Letter for

Full-Implementation of the Cyber-Security Inspection, Revision 0

NRC Inspectors: David Strickland, Lead Larry Jones

404-997-4440 404-997-4837

David.Strickland@nrc.gov Larry.Jones@nrc.gov

NRC Contractors: Alan Konkal Alexander Prada

Alan.Konkal@nrc.gov Alexander.Prada@nrc.gov

I. Information Requested for In-Office Preparation

The initial request for information (i.e., first RFI) concentrates on providing the inspection

team with the general information necessary to select appropriate components and CSP

elements to develop a site-specific inspection plan. The first RFI is used to identify the

list of critical systems and critical digital assets (CSs/CDAs) plus operational and

management (O&M) security control portions of the CSP to be chosen as the sample

set required to be inspected by the cyber-security IP. The first RFIs requested

information is specified below in Table RFI #1. The Table RFI #1 information is

requested to be provided by, June 10, 2019 or sooner, to facilitate the selection of the

specific items that will be reviewed during the onsite inspection weeks.

The inspection team will examine the returned documentation from the first RFI and

identify/select specific systems and equipment (e.g., CSs/CDAs) to provide a more

focused follow-up request to develop the second RFI. The inspection team will submit

the specific systems and equipment list to your staff by July 1, 2019, which will identify

the specific systems and equipment that will be utilized to evaluate the CSs/CDAs,

defensive architecture, and the areas of the licensees CSP selected for the cyber-

security inspection. We request that the additional information provided from the second

RFI be made available by July 15, 2019. All requests for information shall follow the

guidance document ML17156A215 referenced above.

Enclosure

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The required Table RFI 1 information shall be provided via secure site (i.e., Sharepoint,

Certrec) by June 10, 2019. The preferred file format for all lists is object character

recognition (OCR) readable or a searchable Excel spreadsheet file. These files should

be indexed and hyper-linked to facilitate ease of use. If you have any questions

regarding this information, please call the inspection team leader as soon as possible.

Table RFI #1

Section 3, Paragraph Number/Title: Items

1 List All Identified Critical Systems and Critical Digital Assets All

List CDA Facility and Site Ethernet - Transmission Control All

2 Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) based Local Area Networks (LANs)

and identify those LANs that have non-CDAs on them

List CDA facility and site non-ethernet TCP/IP based LANs including All

3 those industrial networks and identify LANs that have non-CDAs on

them

4 Network Topology Diagrams (be sure to include all NIDS and SIEMs All

for EP networks and Security level 3 and 4 networks)

8 List all network security boundary devices for EP networks and all All

network security boundary devices for levels 3 and 4

9 List CDA wireless Industrial networks All

11 Network intrusion detection system documentation for Critical Systems (11.a.1)

that have CDAs associated with them (11.a.)

12 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) documentation (12.a.1)

for Critical systems that have CDAs associated with them (12.a.2)

14 List EP and Security onsite and offsite digital communication systems All

25 Cyber-Security Assessment and Cyber-Security Incident Response All

Teams

28 Copy of Current Cyber Security Plan and copy of any 50.54(p) All

analysis to support changes to the plan

In addition to the above information please provide the following:

(1) Electronic copy of the UFSAR and technical specifications.

(2) Name(s) and phone numbers for the regulatory and technical contacts.

Based on this information, the inspection team will identify and select specific systems

and equipment (e.g., CSs/CDAs) from the information requested by Table RFI #1 and

submit a list of specific systems and equipment to your staff by July 1, 2019 for the

second RFI (i.e., RFI #2).

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II. Additional Information Requested to be Available Prior to Inspection.

As stated in Section I above, the inspection team will examine the returned

documentation requested from Table RFI #1 and submit the list of specific systems and

equipment to your staff by July 1, 2019 for the second RFI (i.e., RFI #2). The second

RFI will request additional information required to evaluate the CSs/CDAs, defensive

architecture, and the areas of the licensees CSP selected for the cyber- security

inspection. The additional information requested for the specific systems and

equipment is identified in Table RFI #2. All requested information shall follow the

guidance document ML17156A215 referenced above.

The Table RFI 2 information shall be provided on secure site (i.e., Sharepoint or Certrec)

by July 15, 2019. The preferred file format for all lists is object character recognition

(OCR) readable or a searchable Excel spreadsheet file. These files should be indexed

and hyper-linked to facilitate ease of use. If you have any questions regarding this

information, please call the inspection team leader as soon as possible.

Table RFI #2

Section 3,

Paragraph Number/Title: Items

5 Plant Computer System Block Diagram (if Plant Computer System is All

selected for inspection)

6 Plant Security System Block Diagram (if Security Computer System is All

selected for inspection)

7 Systems that are distributed Block Diagrams (for systems selected for All

inspection)

10 Host-Based Intrusion Detection System Documentation (for CDAs for (10.a.1)

systems selected for inspection) (10.a.2)

13 List all Maintenance and Test Equipment (M&TE) used on CDAs for All

systems selected for inspection

15 Configuration Management All

16 Supply Chain Management (16.a)

(16.b.1)

(16.b.6)

(16.b.5)

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Table RFI #2

Section 3,

Paragraph Number/Title: Items

17 Portable Media and Mobile Device Control All

18 Software Management All

20 Vendor Access and Monitoring All

21 Work Control All

22 Device Access and Key Control All

23 Password/Authenticator Policy All

24 User Account/Credential Policy All

26 Corrective Actions since last NRC inspection All

27 Cyber-Security Assessments for Selected Systems All

III. Information Requested to be Available on First Day of Inspection

For the specific systems and equipment identified in Section II above, provide the

following RFI (i.e., Table 1ST Week Onsite) by August 12, 2019, the first day of the

inspection. All requested information shall follow the guidance document ML17156A215

referenced above.

The preferred file format for all lists is object character recognition (OCR) readable or a

searchable Excel spreadsheet file. These files should be indexed and hyper-linked to

facilitate ease of use. If you have any questions regarding this information, please call

the inspection team leader as soon as possible.

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Table 1st Week Onsite

Section 3,

Paragraph Number/Title: Items

10 Host-Based Intrusion Detection System Documentation (for CDAs (10.a.3)

for systems selected for inspection) thru

(10.a.12)

11 Network Intrusion Detection System Documentation for Critical (11.a.3)

Systems that have CDAs associated with them thru

(11.a.15)

12 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Documentation (12.a.3)

for Critical Systems that have CDAs associated with them thru

(12.a.14)

16 Supply Chain Management (16.b.2)

(6.b.3)

(16.b.4)

19 Cyber-Security Event Notifications All

In addition to the above information please provide the following:

(1) Copies of the following documents do not need to be solely available to the

inspection team as long as the inspectors have easy and unrestrained access

to them.

a. Updated Final Safety Analysis Report, if not previously provided;

b. Original FSAR Volumes;

c. Original SER and Supplements;

d. FSAR Question and Answers;

e. Quality Assurance Plan;

f. Technical Specifications, if not previously provided;

g. Latest IPE/PRA Report; and

h. Vendor Manuals, for applicable systems selected

(2) Assessment and Corrective Actions:

a. The most recent Cyber-Security Quality Assurance (QA) audit and/or

self-assessment; and

b. The last 73.55(m) assessment performed; and

c. Corrective action documents (e.g., condition reports, including status of

corrective actions) generate as a result of the most recent Cyber-Security

Quality Assurance (QA) audit and/or self-assessment.

IV. Information Requested To Be Provided Throughout the Inspection

(1) Copies of any corrective action documents generated as a result of the

inspection teams questions or queries during the inspection.

(2) Copies of the list of questions submitted by the inspection team members and

the status/resolution of the information requested (provided daily during the

inspection to each inspection team member).

If you have any questions regarding the information requested, please contact the inspection

team.