ICS/SCADA Cybersecurity

Due to the potential impact of an attack on the physical safety of communities, employees or customers, ICS /SCADA security is an even higher priority than for traditional IT systems. Cyber criminals have already developed malware threats such as Triton/TRISIS and Stuxnet that can disrupt industrial Operation Technology (OT).

The ICS/SCADA Cyber Security Training Course is a hands-on training which will enable you to learn the foundation of security and defending architectures from attacks. You will look at the concept of “thinking like a hacker” to learn techniques to defend from the types of attacks that are commonly conducted against the oil and gas IT corporate and control network.

“The much-awaited ICS/SCADA cyber security training course IT professionals have been looking for.”

Course Description

You will learn powerful methods to analyze the risk of both the IT and corporate network. Once your foundation has been set, you will look at the best practices and recommendations when it comes to bridging the air gap. You will learn a systematic process of intrusion and malware analysis. Once you have the process for analysis mastered, you will be introduced to the digital forensic process and how to respond to incidents when a breach is detected.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to ICS/SCADA Network Defense

IT Security Model
ICS/SCADA Security Model

LAB: Security Model

Security Posture
Risk Management in ICS/SCADA
Risk Assessment
Defining Types of Risk
Security Policy

LAB: Allowing a Service

Module 2: TCP/IP 101

Introduction and Overview
Introducing TCP/IP Networks
Internet RFCs and STDs
TCP/IP Protocol Architecture
Protocol layering Concepts
TCP/IP layering
Components of TCP/IP Networks
ICS/SCADA Protocols

LAB: TCP/IP and ICS/SCADA Protocols

Module 3: Introduction to Hacking

Review of the Hacking Process
Hacking Methodology
Intelligence Gathering
Footprinting
Scanning
Enumeration
Identify Vulnerabilities
Exploitation
Covering Tracks

LAB: Hacking ICS/SCADA Networks Protocols

How ICS/SCADA are targeted
Study of ICS/SCADA attacks
ICS/SCADA as a high value target
Attack methodologies in ICS

Module 4: Vulnerability Management

Challenges of Vulnerability Assessment
System Vulnerabilities
Desktop Vulnerabilities
ICS/SCADA Vulnerabilities
Interpreting Advisory Notices
CVE
ICS/SCADA Vulnerability Sites
Lifecycle of A vulnerability and Exploit
Challenges of Zero-day Vulnerability
Exploitation of a vulnerability
Vulnerability Scanners
ICS/SCADA Vulnerability Uniqueness
Challenges of Vulnerability Management within ICS/SCADA

LAB: Vulnerability Assessment

Prioritizing vulnerabilities
CVSS
OVAL

LAB: Vulnerability Severity

Module 5: Standards and Regulations for Cybersecurity

ISO 27001
ICS/SCADA
NERC CIP
CFATS
ISA99
IEC 62443
NIST SP 800-82

Module 6: Securing the ICS network

Physical Security
Establishing policy – ISO roadmap
Securing the protocols unique to the ICS
Performing a vulnerability assessment
Selecting and applying controls to mitigate risk
Monitoring
Mitigating the risk of legacy machines

Module 7: Bridging the Air Gap

Do you really want to do this?
Advantages and disadvantages
Guard
Data Diode
Next Generation firewalls

Deploying event monitoring to mitigate the risk to the ICS
Implementing strong authentication

Module 8: Introduction to Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)

What IDS can and cannot do
Types IDS
Network
Host
Network Node
Advantages of IDS
Limitations of IDS
Stealthing the IDS
Detecting intrusions

LAB: Intrusion Detection

Log analysis
ICS Malware analysis

LAB: ICS Malware Analysis

Essential malware mitigation techniques
ICS/SCADA Network Monitoring
ICS/SCADA IDS

Case Study: Configuring essential rules within ICS/SCADA

Who is it for?

This course is specially designed for IT professionals who are involved in managing or directing their organization’s IT infrastructure and who are responsible for establishing and maintaining information security policies, practices and procedures. The focus in the course is on the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems.

Job Roles

SCADA Systems Personnel
Business System Analysts Who Support SCADA Interfaces
System administrators, engineers and other IT professionals when administering, patching, securing SCADA and/or ICS
Security consultants when performing security assessments of SCADA and/or ICS

According to a 2019 Fortinet report ICS/SCADA Cyber-attacks are growing and no ICS vendor’s products are immune from attacks, and exploits.