IMTalent | Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)

Overview

SANS has joined forces with industry leaders to equip security professionals and control system engineers with the cybersecurity skills they need to defend national critical infrastructure. Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (ICS410) provides a foundational set of standardised skills and knowledge for industrial cybersecurity professionals. The course is designed to ensure that the workforce involved in supporting and defending industrial control systems is trained to keep the operational environment safe, secure, and resilient against current and emerging cyber threats.

Learning Outcome

The course will provide you with:

An understanding of industrial control system components, purposes, deployments, significant drivers, and constraints
Hands-on lab learning experiences to control system attack surfaces, methods, and tools
Control system approaches to system and network defense architectures and techniques
Incident-response skills in a control system environment
Governance models and resources for industrial cybersecurity professionals

Who should Attend?

The course is designed for the range of individuals who work in, interact with, or can affect industrial control system environments, including:

Asset owners
Vendors
Integrators
Other third parties

These personnel primarily come from four domains:

IT (includes operational technology support)
IT security (includes operational technology security)
Engineering
Corporate, industry, and professional standards

Eligibility Criteria

Course participants need to have:

Basic understanding of networking and system administration
TCP/IP
Networking design/architecture
Vulnerability assessment
Risk methodologies

*ICS410 covers many of the core areas of security and assumes a basic understanding of technology, networks, and security.

This course is endorsed under Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme Plus (CITREP+) Programme.
To find out more about CITREP+ Funding, please refer to Programme Support under CITREP+ page

Information is accurate as of 30 December 2019