Our goals
The International Pipeline Resilience Organization (“IPRO”) and its member companies will promote and coordinate the adoption of standards and practices that ensure the digital resilience of North American pipeline systems.
Priority 1:
Establish uniform, robust, affordable, and achievable self-regulatory industry standards and/or best practices that will (a) diminish pipeline exposure to unlawful and disruptive cyber-attacks and other related risks to the reliability and efficiency of pipeline operations and (b) thereby impact the cost of capital and the cost of insurance protection.
Priority 2:
Develop analysis of costs and benefit of establishing industry standards in conjunction with appropriate standard- setting organizations, and adopting transparent best practices, including for any environmental, social, and corporate governance (“ESG”) practices that are implicated by service reliability, in order to reducing pipeline operating and insurance costs and the cost of regulatory compliance wherever possible.
Priority 3:
Determine the proper scope of IPRO collaboration on cyber prevention, protection, and remediation in comparison to the jurisdiction and activities of other governmental agencies and NGOs working in the area, including Canadian and Mexican programs.
Priority 4:
Develop and execute a communications strategy to broadly share critical, non- competitively sensitive information that will make the IPRO’s activities and findings widely understood and helpful to government officials, customers, and the public.
Priority 5:
Conduct collaborative meetings, briefings and conferences that further development of shared industry objectives and best practices, and a common fund of knowledge based on the best available technical expertise.
Priority 6:
Advocate such changes in public policy and regulation that will promote service reliability, jobs and innovation, economic efficiency, resource diversity, a healthy environment, and digital integration.
Priority 7:
Recruit a critical mass of pipeline members, identify the availability of cyber resources and expertise, and establish a strategy designed to make IPRO:
• a credible industry element
• an avenue for communication and education of policy makers regarding matters affecting operational reliability and resilience, both digital and physical
• a focal point for industry collaboration on cyber security and related issues, and a neutral platform for assessing the success or failure of industry participants or specific risk categories in complying with IPRO standards and practices
• as a benchmark for insurers, economic regulators, and capital markets