OT Cyber Security Awareness Training Course

OT Cyber Security Awareness Training Course coming soon

Abhisam is pleased to announce that the Abhisam OT Cyber Security awareness training course will soon be available online. This OT security awareness etraining is a great way to train large numbers of your employees in the basics of OT Cyber Security/Industrial cyber security. This course can be deployed globally via the Abhisam Learning Portal and managers or training administrators can view learner activity and progress via a training …

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NIST 800-82 Rev 3

NIST 800-82 Rev 3 now released

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 …

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OT Cyber Security training

OT Cyber Security Training Workshop at Toyo Engineering India at Mumbai

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 …

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OT Cybersecurity Training Abhisam India Aug 2023

OT Cybersecurity Training held in Mumbai

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 …

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SCADA Security Certification

SCADA Security Certification

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 …

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Supply Chain Cyber Security

Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module for ICS Security

Abhisam will soon be adding  a new Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module to its popular Industrial Cybersecurity training course. 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 course. What is supply chain cyber security? What are supply chain attacks? Any system that uses …

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What is ISA S84

What is the ANSI ISA S84 Standard? Is it a legal requirement?

In this short guide, we will take a look at the ANSI ISA S84 standard. What is ISA S84.01? This is the Functional Safety standard published by ISA (International Systems and Automation Society)’s S 84 committee. This is applicable to functional safety in the process industries. The standard was initially published as ANSI/ISA S84.01:1996 and was recognized by OSHA as a “generally accepted good engineering practice” via their letter …

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Safety Instrumented System Requirements

Safety Instrumented System Requirements

In this small guide we will understand Safety Instrumented System requirements. But first we answer some basic questions such as, What is a Safety Instrumented System? The simplest explanation of a Safety Instrumented System (SIS for short) is ” a system comprised of active elements such as sensors, logic solvers and actuators, working together as a system, which acts to reduce the risk of an unwanted event in a …

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Building Automation System

NIST 800-82 Rev 3 draft released

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 …

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Understanding IEC 62443-2-4

What is IEC 62443-2-4? Understand it easily

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 …

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