industrial control systems

OT Cybersecurity & IEC 62443 Training Workshop in Mumbai in May 2024

Join us on 2nd and 3rd May 2024 in Mumbai, India for the Abhisam OT Cybersecurity Training workshop. This is the fourth time that Abhisam’s India office will be holding the workshop in the past few months. As you probably know by now, Abhisam’s flagship course is the popular Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional course (CICP course) that is taken by hundreds of professionals all over the world. Additionally, Abhisam …

What is IEC 62443-4-3?

This short guide gives you an introduction to the new IEC 62443-4-3 part of the IEC 62443 set of standards. Note: To learn about Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443, you can take the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Training Course here. This leads to certification as a CICP after you complete all the modules and pass the exam. It is better than just certifying oneself to only one part of …

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 …

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 …

What is ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment?

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 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 …

Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 webinar

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 primer for anybody who wishes to know more about securing their Industrial Automation, Control and Safety Systems from cyber threats. Note: For a comprehensive certification …

IEC 62443 Training

This brief guide will explain how to take IEC 62443 training at a much lower cost today than in earlier years. Note: The most cost effective and easiest way to learn all IEC 62443 essentials is to take the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional 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 …

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 …

Log4j vulnerability and ICS security

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 …