Course Aim
The aim of this course is to explain security issues of ICS/SCADA environments, and to provide students with the knowledge necessary to protect Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and industrial field devices. It offers hands-on exercises for training as well as taught content.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the PLC programming methods.
- Manipulate Industrial Control Systems by exploiting their vulnerability.
- Discover known and unknown industrial protocols.
Target Audience
Technical IT-staff fulfilling roles such as administrator and auditor whose daily duties do not necessarily include IC/SCADA-security.
Prerequisites
- The course has a mandatory e-learning module (ADL 347) that can be accessed through the NATO e-Learning Joint Advanced Distributed Learning portal and will be available to all users of the portal.
- Basic knowledge Windows and Linux based systems
- Basic knowledge and experience with network traffic analysis (Wireshark or similar).
- Basic knowledge and experience in programming.
- Comfortable with using virtual machines for training environment (Virtual Box or similar).
- English language skill comparable to STANAG 6001, 2.2.2.2
ISACA CPEs
With the completion of this course the students can earn 28 ISACA CPE hours.
Registration
Please register for the course by visiting the NATO CCDCOE website and completing the provided registration form before the deadline. Applicants from CCDCOE member nations should use the registration code provided by their national Point of Contact.
Module certificate of the ADL 347 must be send to [email protected] when registering for the residential part of the course. You can download it once you have successfully finished the final test of the e-Learning module.
An email confirming the participation will be sent only after the registration has closed.
Seat allocation will only be approved when the payment of the course fee is confirmed.
Should you have any questions, please contact: [email protected]