NEPRA cybersecurity compliance covers one of Pakistan’s largest and least-served regulated populations — 300+ power generation, transmission, and distribution licensees bound since September 2022 by a binding IT/OT security regulation, with an audit-firm ecosystem that is far less formalised than PTA’s.
Mutex Systems helps NEPRA-licensed power companies and OGRA-regulated oil and gas entities meet SOC, continuous-monitoring, and PowerCERT incident-reporting obligations — with OT/ICS-aware assessment methodology built for operational technology environments, not just IT networks.
Every regulator with real jurisdiction over power & gas in Pakistan, what they actually require, and where the audit-firm empanelment opportunity or existing engagement stands.
National Electric Power Regulatory Authority
Not registered — opportunity
Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority
Not registered — opportunity
Named instruments, not vague policy statements — sourced from official regulator publications.
NEPRA
Applies to: All NEPRA-licensed power generation, transmission & distribution companies (300+ licensees)
Requires: Mandatory SOC, continuous monitoring, real-time incident reporting to PowerCERT, 5-year log retention
Read the official sourceNEPRA
Applies to: Power distribution licensees
Requires: Licensing conditions incorporating the IT/OT security baseline
Read the official sourceNEPRA’s IT/OT Regulations are loaded as a framework with OT/ICS-adjacent scanning support, replacing spreadsheet-based log-retention and incident-reporting tracking.
NEPRA’s Security of Information & OT Regulations, binding since September 2022, mandate a Security Operations Centre (SOC), continuous monitoring of IT and operational technology environments, real-time incident reporting to PowerCERT, and a minimum 5-year retention period for security logs. The regulation covers all 300+ NEPRA-licensed power generation, transmission, and distribution companies.
Not to the same level of formalisation. NEPRA’s audit-firm registration process is significantly less structured than the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s CAT-1 to CAT-4 registration regime. Some PTA-authorised auditors are reportedly also used for power-sector audits, but no equivalent standalone NEPRA panel has been published as of this research pass — representing a genuine market opportunity.
PowerCERT is the sector-specific Computer Emergency Response Team referenced in NEPRA’s 2022 IT/OT Regulations as the mandatory recipient of real-time security incident reports from licensed power companies. This sits alongside the broader national nCERT/PISF structure as a sector-specific reporting channel for the power sector.
Not yet to the same binding degree. The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has been named as a sectoral CERT under the Pakistan Information Security Framework (PISF) 2026, signalling intent, but as of this research pass OGRA has not published a standalone cybersecurity regulation or audit-firm panel comparable to NEPRA’s 2022 regulations. Digital fuel-tracking and supply-chain digitisation reforms ordered in mid-2026 are in progress but not yet a published framework.
Both. The NEPRA regulation is explicitly an IT/OT regulation — it does not separate operational technology from conventional IT security, and it applies the same SOC, monitoring, and reporting obligations across both. Assessment methodology needs to account for the availability and safety constraints of live OT/ICS environments rather than applying conventional IT penetration-testing techniques directly to control systems.
Yes. Mutex Systems supports NEPRA-licensed power companies with gap assessments against the 2022 Security of Information & OT Regulations, SOC design and monitoring implementation, PowerCERT incident-reporting process design, and OT/ICS-aware assessment methodology that respects operational safety constraints.
Send us a short brief — your current posture, which regulator you answer to, and any inspection or audit deadline. Within two working days you will receive a written response and a proposed scoping call.