NERC CIP and AI: What Critical Infrastructure Teams Should Demand From Vendors
Bulk AI APIs rarely ship with evidence packs for auditors. The bar is policy, access control, and immutable records.
NERC CIP exists because bulk electric systems cannot tolerate mystery boxes. When AI vendors sell “magic” without boundary definitions, security teams are right to block by default.
Contracts are not architecture
SOC reports and marketing PDFs do not replace enforceable gates: who can invoke which models, from where, on what data classes, with what logging and retention. Those requirements belong in product behavior, not footnotes.
Audit trails that survive scrutiny
An acceptable system produces artifacts: allow/deny decisions with rationale references, provider identifiers, timestamps, and correlation IDs that tie back to enterprise identity. If you cannot reconstruct a chain of custody for a sensitive prompt, you are not ready for regulated deployment.
How Dali fits the conversation
GammaLex orients Dali around request-level governance and observability so energy and critical infrastructure clients can map controls to their own compliance programs—rather than bolting spreadsheets onto opaque APIs.
Critical infrastructure buyers should expect the same seriousness applied to OT and IT systems: least privilege, change visibility, and retention that matches regulatory expectations.
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