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Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems
A practical course on protecting industrial control systems for instrument and control engineers, automation engineers, OT and IT staff, and operations and HSE managers in oil and gas, utilities and process plants. It covers how OT security differs from IT security, the Purdue model and IEC 62443 zones, conduits and security levels, consequence-based risk assessment, defence-in-depth controls, protecting the safety instrumented system, and incident response. It ends with governance and a roadmap for building an OT security programme.
Taught by iCompetent
- Modules
- 7
- Lessons
- 35
- Duration
- 7h 16m
- Level
- Intermediate
- Quizzes
- 7 graded
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Course content
7 modules · 35 lessons · 7h 16m
What an industrial control system is made of, how operational technology security differs from office IT security, what is at stake, what real incidents have shown, and who attacks these systems and how they get in.
- The Building Blocks of an Industrial Control SystemPreview12 min
- How OT Security Differs from IT Security12 min
- What Is at Stake: Consequences of an OT Cyber Attack12 min
- Lessons from Notable Incidents14 min
- Threat Actors and Common Attack Paths13 min
- ICS foundations — quiz8 questions · pass 70%
Topics covered
OT Security
IEC 62443
Industrial Control Systems
Risk Assessment
Incident Response
Defence in Depth
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