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 self paced OT Security elearning courses
Traditional classroom-based methods of training employees are challenging, as you need to schedule multiple employees & trainers to be available, at the same place at the same time, keep manual track of training records and carry out periodic refresher training.
Different people learn at different speeds, and this means some learners may not absorb everything during the limited training hours and the outcomes of the training may be sub-optimal.
Abhisam’s self-paced e-learning courses, liberate you from these constraints, as learners can take a wide range of useful courses, on their own schedule and complete them at their own pace, access them from multiple devices including smartphones.
This includes several courses on OT Cybersecurity as well as others on Process Safety, HAZOP, Functional Safety & SIL, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety and more.
How this helps in improving OT Cybersecurity
OT cybersecurity is a growing concern among all industrial sectors (not just manufacturing) that use Operational Technology such as Warehouses, Ports, Buildings, Water & Wastewater plants, Electrical grids, Oil Pipelines. This is because all these types of installations, have had cyber attacks on them in the recent past that should not be allowed to happen again.
Note that all of them are not widely reported in the media, so you may not have noticed many.
The first step in protecting OT Systems from cyber attacks, is creating awareness about the problem and this is best done by imparting training to all employees as fast as possible. The best way to do this, which is fast as well as cost effective, is via appropriate online OT cybersecurity training courses and by monitoring the progress of learners via Management Dashboards.
Managers can keep track of their progress via these Dashboards that also generate automatic training records, for managing training & keeping track of competencies, as well as for meeting compliance requirements, especially with training related to safety & cybersecurity.
Please note that Abhisam courses are not videos of somebody talking to a camera. They are a unique blend of text, voice, animations & simulations, situational character videos, interactive quizzes and assessments and case studies from real life plants and facilities.
What if my organization has an LMS?
Sure. If your Learning Managament System (LMS) ,is based on xAPI, SCORM or AICC (commonly used standards in learning), we can stream our OT Cybersecurity courses to your LMS so that they are accessible internally to your own employees via your own LMS.
Which courses are available?
Currently we have the following courses on OT Cybersecurity.
1. OT Cybersecurity Awareness
2. OT Cybersecurity Fundamentals.
3, OT Cybersecurity for IT Professionals.
4. Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (CICP).
The following courses are under development and will be available soon.
5. Understanding OT Cybersecurity & IEC 62443 (The classroom version is available, the e-learning one is under development)
6. Cyber PHA
Experience Abhisam’s OT Cybersecurity courses
If your organization wants to experience the ease of use of the new Abhisam Competency portal, please contact us to set up a free trial account today. Click here for or more information on OT cybersecurity
