Update: The next OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training workshop will be held in Mumbai on 2nd and 3rd May 2024. More details here.
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 training program?
Participants included a mix of senior and middle level professionals from several marquee companies including thyssenkrupp, Worley, Technova, Schneider and others with some having OT background and some with IT background. Some more participants were supposed to join but could not due to some last minute schedule changes at their end, they will join the next one.
What did the OT Security workshop cover?
The OT Security training workshop covered the following important aspects:
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- Introduction to Operational Technology (OT) systems (including DCS, PLC, SCADA, SIS)
- Differences between OT security and IT security.
- Basic Concepts of OT security- Threats, Vulnerabilities & Attacks
- Case Study of an OT attack
- Introduction to CSMS (Cyber Security Management System)
- Introduction to IEC 62443
- Overview of individual parts of IEC 62443
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- IEC 62443-1-1
- IEC 62443-2-1
- IEC 62443-2-3
- IEC 62443-2-4
- IEC 62443-3-1
- IEC 62443-3-2
- IEC 62443-3-3
- IEC 62443-4-1
- IEC 62443-4-2
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- Carrying out a OT Security Risk Assessment
- Q & A
The workshop also involved exercises such as evaluating a System architecture for analyzing its attack surface and potential vulnerabilities, as well as determining Zones and Conduits. Later, a group exercise on cyber Risk Assessment was also carried out. There were many interesting discussions on the relevance of the Purdue Model to modern OT architecture security, protecting oil pipeline SCADA from cyber threats, using Unidirectional gateways, Data Diodes versus only Firewalls, data communication from ERP systems to DCS for Production planning, OPC servers and much more.
The feedback from the participants was excellent.
When will the next OT Cybersecurity training workshop in India be held?
The next public workshop in India, will be conducted in a few months time. Meanwhile, if you would like to have such a workshop at your site/office, please get in touch with us.
Abhisam also has a popular higher level OT Cybersecurity Certification course, the Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (CICP) Program. This is open to any professional with an IT or OT background and some real world experience of at least 3 years, which is not necessarily in cybersecurity. This course is completely online, self-paced and modular and the exam and certification is included in the cost. This is the most cost effective OT cybersecurity certification that you can get anywhere. Hence it is popular with many individual professionals, as well as with large corporations such as FLSmidth, Black & Veatch, SASOL and others.
