By Elliot Weishaar, CIP Compliance Engineer, MRO

The Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Evidence Request Tool (ERT) v10.0 was released by NERC on February 6, 2026. You can download a copy of the audit notification packet templates here. Included in the template package is the ERT, the User Guide, and a list of MRO-specific changes made to the NERC version of the ERT, which are administrative in nature to help aid MRO’s audit process. To see the changes made to the ERT in this version, see the “CIP Evidence Request Tool Release Notes” linked here.

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