Online-Course: Cybersecurity in Digital Substations

Summary

Get an introduction to the basics of cybersecurity and dependable systems in this beginner friendly, well-balanced mix of presentation and live demonstration by our trainer. In the first part, you will learn about the main idea behind cybersecurity and why it is important. Basic terminology, the difference between IT and OT cybersecurity, motivations, vulnerabilities, frameworks, and much more is covered. This theoretical part is rounded up with examples of known attacks on substations and utilities and how cybersecurity is integrated into daily work. Learn how to aggregate, link and investigate events and alarms, manage an asset inventory and vulnerabilities in the live demonstration. 

Objectives

• Understand and get an introduction to the basics of cybersecurity 
• Learn about different requirements for OT and IT cybersecurity and why they clash in energy distribution 
• Get to know what to consider when building a dependable system and why this is necessary 
• Understand the importance of cybersecurity with concrete examples and how it affects your work 
• Working with the StationGuard Solution to manage and understand events, assets and vulnerabilities

 

Content

• Introduction to Cybersecurity 
  • Differences in requirements for OT and IT 
  • Opponents and Motivations 
  • Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors 
• Building dependable Systems 
  • Risk Management 
  • National and International Standards (NIST, ISO 27000, IEC 62443, …) 
• Cybersecurity in Energy Distribution
  • Digitalization in the Energy Sector
  • Attack Vectors on Substations 
• Functional and Security Monitoring
  • Integrating Intrusion Detection Systems, SIEM and SOC
  • Event, Asset and Vulnerability Management
  • StationGuard Solution Live Demonstration

 

Duration

1 day

Schedule

Please check your time zone before registering!

This training course is hosted by our Training Center Erlangen, Germany
from 09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. CET – Central European Time (UTC + 1:00)

*For the training course, we will be using “Cisco Webex Training”. This is a Cisco Webex Meetings solution made available by Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, California, USA) to conduct our training sessions. For that purpose, your data submitted in the registration process needs to be forwarded to Cisco.

Audience

Anyone interested; OT and IT Cybersecurity Engineers, Management and Architects 

Prerequisites

None

Solutions

StationGuard Sensor and StationGuard GridOps