Searching for the IEC 62443 latest version? You have come to the right place, but since IEC 62443 is not one single document but a set of several documents, there is no single latest version. You can read about the latest changes here. What is IEC 62443? IEC 62443 is a set of standards, technical specifications and reports that deal with OT cyber security also known as Industrial Cybersecurity. …
Full program page coming soon. To reserve your seat now, contact us directly: sales@abhisam.com | +91 9664404771 (WhatsApp / Telegram) Abhisam’s India office is running two back-to-back OT cybersecurity programs in Mumbai this May. Attend one or both — each is a complete, standalone program. The Two Programs Day 1 — Thursday 14th May 2026 OT Cybersecurity & IEC 62443 Fundamentals A one-day intensive covering the essentials of OT …
IEC 62443 training in Mumbai Abhisam is pleased to announce the next batch of their popular Instructor led IEC 62443 training in Mumbai will take place on 27th and 28th November 2025. Register Here. Download the IEC 62443 training program brochure here. What is this IEC 62443 training in Mumbai all about? This IEC 62443 training in Mumbai will be a hands on training workshop which will cover the …
What is the free IEC 62443 webinar all about? This free IEC 62443 webinar will cover the recent changes in IEC 62443 structure and parts. As you probably know IEC 62443 is a set of standards & technical reports that deal with OT Cybersecurity. OT stands for Operational Technology (as compared to IT which stands for Information Technology). The cybersecurity of OT systems is often challenging because they not …
Abhisam is pleased to announce that, it is giving away the Abhisam Quick Guide to OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 eboook. What is the free OT Cybersecurity book about? This free IEC 62443 download gives you a great Introduction and Overview of OT cybersecurity and the IEC 62443 standard. In less than 100 pages, the reader will quickly come up to speed with the evolution of Industrial Automation and …
Update: The next batch of this training workshop will take place on 27th and 28th November 2025. Join the IEC 62443 training workshop here. The popular Abhisam event Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 Training Mumbai batch was held on 20th and 21st June 2025 in Mumbai, India at Hotel IRA by Orchid, Andheri (East), Mumbai, India. Who attended the Abhisam Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training …
Update-The next batch on 27th and 28th November 2025. Join the IEC 62443 training workshop here. What is the OT Cybersecurity training in India all about? Abhisam will be conducting the 8th batch of the popular Instructor led OT Cybersecurity Training in India in Mumbai on 20th and 21st June 2025. This OT cyber security training workshop is titled “Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443”. It will include the …
IEC 62443-2-2 published IEC 62443-2-2 has now been published by IEC- International Electrotechnical Commission. This is part of the IEC 62443 set of standards and relates to Industrial Cybersecurity (cyber security of Industrial Automation & Control Systems, known as IACS for short). However, IEC 62443 development has been uneven- not all parts have been published, but some parts are already in their second editions! What is IEC 62443? …
The Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity training program (CICP- Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional) has been updated to reflect the new IEC 62443 updates. For example, IEC 62443-2-1 was completely revised in Edition 2 (actually it is like a completely new standard) and has no connection with IEC 62443-2-1 Edition 1. About IEC 62443 updates IEC 62443 is a set of standards and technical reports that are about Industrial and …
Recently the second edition of the IEC 62443-2-1:2024 standard has been released by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2010. This edition constitutes a technical revision. IEC 62443-2-1 changes in the new edition This edition includes major technical changes with respect to the previous edition such as a) A revised requirement structure into SP elements (SPEs), b) Several revised …
Update: The next batch of this training workshop will take place on 27th and 28th November 2025. Join the IEC 62443 training workshop here. The 7th Abhisam Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training workshop was held on 23rd and 24th Jan 2025 in Bengaluru. The event was attended by senior professionals from marquee organizations in India including those from ISRO DRDO, Bharat Electronics Limited , Central Power Research …
Abhisam is pleased to announce a new Rapid OT Cybersecurity Assessment Tool that can quickly give you an evaluation of the cybersecurity posture of your OT System, such as any Industrial Automation and Control System (such as those based on PLC or DCS or PAC), or Robotic System, Warehouse Automation System, Building Management System, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) or any other OT system that you use …
Update: The next batch of this training workshop will take place on 27th and 28th November 2025. Join the IEC 62443 training workshop here. Abhisam is pleased to announce the 7th edition of its popular IEC 62443 training in Bengaluru on 23rd and 24th January 2025. This Instructor led, classroom style physical training workshop will be an excellent way to learn about OT Security and understand the various parts …
Abhisam’s popular CICP course ( Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional course, ) got an update recently. This year there have been some changes in the IEC 62443 organization, with some new parts getting added, expansion of the numbering as well as renumbering of draft pulications. This necessitated including these updates in the popular CICP course. Download the CICP information sheet here. What is the CICP course? The Abhisam CICP course …
Grid-India conducted a SCADA training course for their employees in Mumbai from 20th Aug to 22nd Aug 2024. The session on SCADA Cyber security training was conducted by Mandar Phadke, from Abhisam’s India office. Attendees included engineering and technical professionals working in Regional Load Despatch centres as well as the National Load Despatch Center. Grid India, also known as Grid Controller of India, is the primary custodian of India’s …
How to build employee competency easily and without breaking your budget Abhisam is pleased to announce that its new Training and Competency management portal at https://rapidcompetency.com for Enterprises is live. This is a great way for organizations of all sizes, whether having just 10 employees or having thousands of employees to build competency, via online elearning training courses and manage it via dashboards. Classroom OT Security training versus online …
Update: Here are the latest changes to IEC 62443 in 2026 Searching for the IEC 62443 latest version? You have come to the right place, but since IEC 62443 is not one single document but a set of several documents, there is no single latest version. You can read about the latest changes here. What is IEC 62443? IEC 62443 is a set of standards, technical specifications and reports …
For those new to OT Cyber security, here is a brief guide. A Brief Introduction to OT Cybersecurity This guide will help you quickly understand Operational Technology cyber security (OT Cyber Security) if you are new to it. After reading this, you can read other articles related to OT Cybersecurity on this site. You can also take the OT Cybersecurity Awareness course, as well as other courses such as …
Update: Next IEC 62443 training Workshop in Mumbai on 27th and 28th November 2025. More details about the OT Cybersecurity IEC 62443 Training workshop here. Update: Workshop is over and was attended by professionals from a slew of different large organizations including HCL, Schneider, Yokohoma and Addverb. Next workshop will be held on Join us on 2nd and 3rd August 2024 in Mumbai, India for the Abhisam OT Cybersecurity …
Update (13th June 2024): The IEC 62443-4-3 draft is now undergoing a ballot and will be renumbered as IEC 62443-1-6. This seems a bit unusual, as generally IEC does not change the number of the draft standard to a different one when it becomes a fully approved standard. We will post more information about this when we receive it. This means that now the Devices and Components section would …
ICS Cyber Security for Chemical plants- Introduction Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used in all modern chemical plants. These Industrial Control Systems play a crucial role in maintaining the efficiency, reliability, and safety of chemical plant operations. Currently the global chemical industry is facing challenging times related to energy costs, raw material costs and supply chain problems. The last thing it wants are additional risks of disruption due to …
Update: The course is now available. Learners who meet the following criteria can get access for free. 1. You need to have at least 5 years experience in any industry that has OT systems. 2. Your organization has at least 100 employees (in all locations together). Please contact us to get your free access today. There are 100 free seats available, limit 5 seats per organization. ———————————- Abhisam is …
We had recently posted about the NIST 800-82 Special Publication Revision 2 being updated and the draft version being published. Now this draft has been formally approved and hence now we have a full version available for implementation by stakeholders such as Asset Owners, Engineering Design Consultants, Contractors, Automation vendors, OT Cybersecurity professionals and any other persons or organizations who need to be aware of OT Cybersecurity. What …
In this short guide, we will take a look at what we mean by ICS security assessment. ICS is short for industrial Control Systems. These may be DCS (Distributed Control Systems), or PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) based, or some form of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems) or any other programmable type systems. These include not only BPCS (Basic Process Control Systems) but also SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems). …
OT Cyber Security Training workshop in Mumbai, India Abhisam successfully conducted an OT Cyber security Training workshop, at Toyo Engineering India’s Mumbai office. The two day workshop was attended by more than 35 senior engineering and IT professionals from Toyo. This comprehensive event included OT/ICS cyber security, as well as IEC 62443 training, ISO 27001 training and NIST 800-82 training. Toyo Engineering India Private Limited (Toyo-India), an Engineering Consultancy …
Update: The next OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training workshop will be held in Mumbai on 27th and 28th Nov 2025. Abhisam’s India office successfully conducted the Abhisam “Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training workshop” at Hotel Ira by Orchid, Andheri, Mumbai on 2nd Aug 2023. This unique, in-person Instructor led OT Cybersecurity training workshop was led by Mandar Phadke from Abhisam. Who participated in the OT Cybersecurity …
Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce that they successfully conducted two OT Security IEC 62443 training workshops at Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) at their Vadodara and Dahej manufacturing sites. If you would like to organize a similar event for your industrial sites that utilize OT systems, please get in touch with us OR attend one of our public OT Security training events that will start from …
Update: The current workshops are at the link below: https://www.abhisam.com/ot-cybersecurity-auditor-training-mumbai-2026/ OT security training in India Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce a series of in person, Instructor led, OT Security Training workshops in India, starting from 2nd August 2023 in Mumbai, followed by similar events in other cities in India and Asia. The next event will be held on 2nd and 3rd August 2024 in Mumbai. These OT …
Process Safety and Cyber security Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new course “Cybersecurity for Process Safety Professionals” will be available soon. This course enables Process Safety Professionals to understand basic concepts of cybersecurity and incorporate cyber security considerations, such as cyber attacks on Industrial Control systems into the Safety Studies and Risk assessments that they carry out. Abhisam GOLD Members and PLATINUM members will get access to …
Update: New Webinar series- Introduction to OT Cybersecurity & changes in IEC 62443 Date: 28th May 2025 Time: 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Register here: Industrial Cybersecurity webinar series Here’s an interesting piece of industrial cyber security news for you! Abhisam is pleased to announce a free series of industrial cyber security webinars in the new year 2023. The “Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443” webinar, is a …
Understand Supply chain cyber security to protect your Industrial Control System against supply chain attacks In this short guide, let us understand Supply Chain cyber security. This is important to understand to protect your IACS against attacks that can happen via the different components used by your Industrial Control System and your Safety Instrumented System. This topic is covered in the latest version of the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity …
This short guide will explain all aspects of SCADA Security Certification. But first we will understand what is a SCADA. What is SCADA? SCADA is short for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System. These systems are used in a wide variety of industries from electrical grids (electrical substation SCADA) to pipeline monitoring systems. A typical SCADA consists of remote terminal units (RTUs), and/or PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) and/or IED …
Update: The Supply Chain cybersecurity module has been added to the course. Abhisam will soon be adding a new Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module to its popular Industrial Cybersecurity training course. (Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional-CICP). This module will be part of the Advanced Modules 2 in the Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional training course (CICP) and will be available to learners who opt for the Professional version of the …
The most cost effective and easiest way to learn all IEC 62443 essentials is to take the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (CICP) training course. This fully self-paced, online course consisting of text, voice over, videos, animations, assessments and exercises, can be taken anytime from anywhere via any internet enabled device with a browser. This is the only Industrial Cybersecurity training course which covers basic to intermediate level stuff …
Here’s a guide to IEC 62443. After going through this (somewhat short) IEC 62443 guide, you will understand how it helps you secure your Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS for short) against cyber threats. Let us understand more about it, why it was developed and where it can be used. Update: There have been changes in IEC 62443 in the year 2024. Please read about the IEC 62443 …
If you have been working in the field of Industrial Control Systems cyber security (ICS security) or in the broader Operational Technology cybersecurity domain (OT security) then you may have heard of the standard ANSI/ISA/IEC 62443, referred to these days as simply IEC 62443. This standard has certain Foundational Requirements that are important and these are explained in short here. This short guide will explain these IEC 62443 Foundational …
Abhisam is pleased to announce that the Industrial Cybersecurity Training Course (Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional) has now an updated module on OT Security standards. The previous module titled IACS Security Standards has been thoroughly revised and has got several new sections that cover a lot about the parts of the ANSI/ISA/ IEC 62443 standard that have been published so far. What is the CICP program? Abhisam introduced the Industrial …
Update: The Full version of NIST 800-82 Rev 3 has been released. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is a part of the US Department of Commerce had invited public comments before release of the Revision 3 of the NIST 800-82 Guide to ICS Security, we had a blog post that talked about this a few months ago here. This Initial public draft has now been …
Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new module on understanding IEC 62443-2-4 is now a part of the Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity training course (Professional Version). What is IEC 62443-2-4? As you probably know, the IEC 62443 series of standards is developed jointly by ISA (International Society of Automation) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), to provide guidance for implementing Industrial Cybersecurity. The term is synonymous with OT Security (Operational …
As you may already be aware, a new critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) affecting Apache Log4j software library versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1 has been discovered. What is the Log4j vulnerability? Log4j is used in many websites, consumer and enterprise services and applications—as well as in operational technology products, which includes even Industrial Control Systems such as DCS, SIS, PLC, SCADA, Process Historians and similar hosts and controllers. For …
The Abhisam Industrial Cyber Security Lifecycle shows the top 10 controls needed to achieve robust cyber security for your Industrial Automation, Control and Safety System (IACS). IACS is a broad term for control and automation systems such as DCS (Distributed Control Systems), PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers), SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems), SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems), HIPPS (High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems), BMS (Burner Management Systems) and others. …
What is SCADA cyber security? SCADA cyber security refers to cybersecurity of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems. These cyber attacks on SCADA that can not only damage the system itself, but also lead to consequential damages to plant and equipment, as well as cause hardship to people due to contaminated water supplies, or failure of the electrical supply to homes, industries and businesses, or shortages of critical items …
Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Training Looking for Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Advanced Training? Then this Abhisam industrial control systems cyber security certification course is the one that you’re looking for. Composed on several modules that include everything from Basic Concepts of Industrial Control Systems as well as Basic Concepts about cyber security, this Abhisam training course has them all. The Advanced Module of this course includes current …
Supply Chain attacks are something to watch out for In the recently published Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity Report, we had mentioned supply chain attacks, as something to watch out for in 2024. We never imagined that we would be so right. These supply chain attacks are pretty broad in scope and are not just related to the Industrial Control System devices, such as DCS controllers or SIS Logic Solvers but …
Update: NIST has released the draft now. Please see here for news on the latest NIST 800 Rev 3 Draft. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is a part of the US Department of Commerce has invited public comments to update the existing NIST Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security, SP 800-82 Rev 2 to SP 800-82 (Rev 3). The deadline for comments is May …
This paper related to cyber security oil and gas industries, is available as a part of the Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity report, which can be downloaded now. Author: H Sreedhar. Recent History of Automation in Oil & Gas The Oil and Gas industry (O & G for short) has been a pioneer in embracing digital technology. It was one of the first industrial sectors to transition to Distributed Control …
Abhisam recently published a report on the State of Industrial Cybersecurity in the year 2020 and the road ahead in 2021. The report was compiled by contributions from several different experts from various industry segments, who are individually having at least 25 years of experience in their own domains as well as having deep knowledge about Industrial Cybersecurity. To understand the basics, please see this basic Industrial Cybersecurity guide …
Abhisam has published the much awaited Industrial Cybersecurity Report 2020, that gives you a snapshot of the state of Industrial Cyber security in the year 2020 and the path ahead in 2021. The report can be downloaded by anybody from here https://www.abhisam.com/Reports/IndustrialCybersecurityReport2020.pdf About the Report The report has been compiled by Abhisam and has articles by Industry professionals from different sectors such as Oil & Gas, Water & …
Update (16 Oct 2020) :We have started receiving contributions/paper submissions for inclusion in this report. If you have not yet sent in your thoughts, please do so at the earliest. We will be publishing this report by end October 2020 or latest by early November 2020. A lot of exciting insights from Industry leaders and professionals will be included. The ICS Cyber security field has seen a lot of …
Now ICS cyber security training has become more exciting than ever. Abhisam has added an assignment module in the Industrial Cybersecurity training program, where enrolled learners take part in an exciting thriller. Background As you know this training program leads to industrial control systems security certifications that you must have, in today’s industrial automation world. Plant Owners, process licensors, utility companies, engineering design consulting companies, EPC contractors and even …
Abhisam is pleased to announce that the popular ICS security training course, which is available as an e-course online, will now have an advanced module that can be accessed by all current learners and GOLD members. This will have many sub modules such as concepts of Kill Chains, the MITRE ATT&CK framework for ICS, Honeypots for Industrial Automation and Control systems and more. Cybersecurity is a growing concern for …
The best way to get Cyber Security Training online for Industrial Control Systems (ICS), is via Abhisam’s new Industrial Cybersecurity e-learning course. If you are an engineer or technical professional who is working in areas of Instrumentation, Control Systems, Automation or Safety in any kind of industry, then you must understand and be competent in ICS Security. Industrial Control Systems (ICS for short) are used extensively in all kinds …
Abhisam is delighted to announce that its much awaited e-learning course (XPRTU) on Industrial Cybersecurity is now released and available for purchase on the Abhisam website! This ICS Cybersecurity course covers all that you need to know about Industrial Control System Cybersecurity. Available in three options as Online (for individuals), Enterprise (for companies and other organizations) and Enterprise SCORM (in case a company/organization would like this to be accessible …