COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators.
This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Process Automation Networks and Systems Security. It covers the industrial automation systems covering SCADA, DCS and PLC-based systems, layers of industrial automation, common communication protocols and control loops and feedback in industrial environments; the components of a process automation network (PAN); the differences between IT and OT systems; the typical network architecture of industrial systems and cyber threat landscape in OT environments; the role of project managers in secure automation deployments; and the key principles of cybersecurity.
Further, the course will also discuss the network security concepts, industrial protocol security issues, access control mechanisms and patch management and system updates; the security policies and standards covering NIST SP 800-82 for ICS, IEC 62443 (industrial network security), ISO 27001 and its relevance to OT and developing internal cybersecurity policies; the threat detection techniques, cybersecurity risk management and incident response in process automation networks; and the business continuity and disaster recovery.