This year the list administrator will be helping to create and will be lecturing on Critical Infrastructure and Control Systems Security {CICSS}, a Course hosted by the University of South Australia, and maybe finally finishing development of an industry gap training resource simply titled "Practical SCADA". 

 

·         Critical Infrastructure and Control System Security  (22-26 March 2010) Lecturer - Ron Southworth

 

Critical Infrastructure and Control System Security

The course is designed to provide knowledge and understanding of the key policy issues and technologies underlying Critical Infrastructures (CI) in the various industries and the design considerations for process control systems in light of threats of natural or man-made catastrophic events with a view to securing such critical systems.

 

Course Content:

Critical Infrastructures (CI)and their vulnerabilities, the role of CI in the economy, security policy and procedures; risks management and strategic planning; Fundamentals of SCADA systems : hardware, software and communication systems -Ethernet, TCP/IP, security protocols; Security Engineering Principles : opportunities and limitations of  engineered solution to the CI with a primer on technologies employed, their historic content and current key issues; Enterprises network securities:  security roles, system connections, secure remote maintenance, system communication protection, perimeter protection; System monitoring tools and techniques ; Incident Management and response and Escalation: Research approaches and current best practices in process control systems security.