Cyber Security – Abhisam

CICP (Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional) course gets updated-IEC 62443 changes

Abhisam’s popular CICP course ( Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional course, ) got an update recently. This year there have been some changes in the IEC 62443 organization, with some new parts getting added, expansion of the numbering as well as renumbering of draft pulications. This necessitated including these updates in the popular CICP course. Download the CICP information sheet here. What is the CICP course? The Abhisam CICP course …

SCADA Cyber Security Training in Mumbai

Grid-India conducted a SCADA training course for their employees in Mumbai from 20th Aug to 22nd Aug 2024. The session on SCADA Cyber security training was conducted by Mandar Phadke, from Abhisam’s India office. Attendees included engineering and technical professionals working in Regional Load Despatch centres as well as the National Load Despatch Center. Grid India, also known as Grid Controller of India, is the primary custodian of India’s …

Build employee OT Cybersecurity competency

How to build employee competency easily and without breaking your budget Abhisam is pleased to announce that its new Training and Competency management portal at https://rapidcompetency.com for Enterprises is live. This is a great way for organizations of all sizes, whether having just 10 employees or having thousands of employees to build competency, via online elearning training courses and manage it via dashboards. Classroom OT Security training versus online …

IEC 62443 Updates in 2024

Searching for the IEC 62443 latest version? You have come to the right place, but since IEC 62443 is not one single document but a set of several documents, there is no single latest version. You can read about the latest changes here. What is IEC 62443? IEC 62443 is a set of standards, technical specifications and reports that deal with OT cyber security also known as Industrial Cybersecurity. …

Introduction to OT Cyber Security

For those new to OT Cyber security, here is a brief guide. A Brief Introduction to OT Cybersecurity This guide will help you quickly understand Operational Technology cyber security (OT Cyber Security) if you are new to it. After reading this, you can read other articles related to OT Cybersecurity on this site. You can also take the OT Cybersecurity Awareness course, as well as other courses such as …

OT Cybersecurity & IEC 62443 Training Workshop in Mumbai in May 2024

Update: Workshop is over and was attended by professionals from a slew of different large organizations including HCL, Schneider, Yokohoma and Addverb. Next workshop will be held on Join us on 2nd and 3rd August 2024 in Mumbai, India for the Abhisam OT Cybersecurity Training workshop. This is the sixth time that Abhisam’s India office will be holding the workshop in the past few months. As you probably know …

What is IEC 62443-4-3?

Update (13th June 2024): The IEC 62443-4-3 draft is now undergoing a ballot and will be renumbered as IEC 62443-1-6. This seems a bit unusual, as generally IEC does not change the number of the draft standard to a different one when it becomes a fully approved standard. We will post more information about this when we receive it. This means that now the Devices and Components section would …

ICS Cyber Security for Chemical Plant

ICS Cyber Security for Chemical plants- Introduction Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used in all modern chemical plants. These Industrial Control Systems play a crucial role in maintaining the efficiency, reliability, and safety of chemical plant operations. Currently the global chemical industry is facing challenging times related to energy costs, raw material costs and supply chain problems. The last thing it wants are additional risks of disruption due to …

OT Cyber Security Awareness Training Course coming soon

Update: The course is now available. Learners who meet the following criteria can get access for free. 1. You need to have at least 5 years experience in any industry that has OT systems. 2. Your organization has at least 100 employees (in all locations together). Please contact us to get your free access today. There are 100 free seats available, limit 5 seats per organization. ———————————- Abhisam is …

NIST 800-82 Rev 3 now released

We had recently posted about the NIST 800-82 Special Publication Revision 2 being updated and the draft version being published. Now this draft has been formally approved and hence now we have a full version available for implementation by stakeholders such as Asset Owners, Engineering Design Consultants, Contractors, Automation vendors, OT Cybersecurity professionals and any other persons or organizations who need to be aware of OT Cybersecurity. What …

What is ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment?

In this short guide, we will take a look at what we mean by ICS security assessment. ICS is short for industrial Control Systems. These may be DCS (Distributed Control Systems), or PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) based, or some form of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems) or any other programmable type systems. These include not only BPCS (Basic Process Control Systems) but also SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems). …

OT Cyber Security Training Workshop at Toyo Engineering India at Mumbai

OT Cyber Security Training workshop in Mumbai, India Abhisam successfully conducted an OT Cyber security Training workshop, at Toyo Engineering India’s Mumbai office. The two day workshop was attended by more than 35 senior engineering and IT professionals from Toyo. This comprehensive event included OT/ICS cyber security, as well as IEC 62443 training, ISO 27001 training and NIST 800-82 training. Toyo Engineering India Private Limited (Toyo-India), an Engineering Consultancy …

OT Cybersecurity Training Abhisam India Aug 2023

OT Cybersecurity Training held in Mumbai

Update: The next OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training workshop will be held in Mumbai on 2nd and 3rd August 2024. More details here. Abhisam’s India office successfully conducted the Abhisam “Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 training workshop” at Hotel Ira by Orchid, Andheri, Mumbai on 2nd Aug 2023. This unique, in-person Instructor led OT Cybersecurity training workshop was led by Mandar Phadke from Abhisam. Who participated in …

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OT Security and IEC 62443 training at GACL

Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce that they successfully conducted two OT Security IEC 62443 training workshops at Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) at their Vadodara and Dahej manufacturing sites. If you would like to organize a similar event for your industrial sites that utilize OT systems, please get in touch with us OR attend one of our public OT Security training events that will start from …

OT Security Training in India-IEC 62443 Training Workshop

OT security training in India Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce a series of in person, Instructor led, OT Security Training workshops in India, starting from 2nd August 2023 in Mumbai, followed by similar events in other cities in India and Asia. The next event will be held on 2nd and 3rd August 2024 in Mumbai. These OT Security training workshops will cover the following topics and can …

cybersecurity for process safety professionals training course

Process Safety and Cyber security course

Process Safety and Cyber security Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new course “Cybersecurity for Process Safety Professionals” will be available soon. This course enables Process Safety Professionals to understand basic concepts of cybersecurity and incorporate cyber security considerations, such as cyber attacks on Industrial Control systems into the Safety Studies and Risk assessments that they carry out. Abhisam GOLD Members and PLATINUM members will get access to …

Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 webinar

Industrial Cybersecurity webinar series Here’s an interesting piece of industrial cyber security news for you! Abhisam is pleased to announce a free series of industrial cyber security webinars in the new year 2023. The “Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443” webinar, is a primer for anybody who wishes to know more about securing their Industrial Automation, Control and Safety Systems from cyber threats. Note: For a comprehensive certification …

What is Supply Chain cyber security?

Understand Supply chain cyber security to protect your Industrial Control System against supply chain attacks In this short guide, let us understand Supply Chain cyber security. This is important to understand to protect your IACS against attacks that can happen via the different components used by your Industrial Control System and your Safety Instrumented System. This topic is covered in the latest version of the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity …

SCADA Security Certification

This short guide will explain all aspects of SCADA Security Certification. But first we will understand what is a SCADA. What is SCADA? SCADA is short for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System. These systems are used in a wide variety of industries from electrical grids (electrical substation SCADA) to pipeline monitoring systems. A typical SCADA consists of remote terminal units (RTUs), and/or PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) and/or IED …

Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module for ICS Security

Update: The Supply Chain cybersecurity module has been added to the course. Abhisam will soon be adding a new Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module to its popular Industrial Cybersecurity training course. (Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional-CICP). This module will be part of the Advanced Modules 2 in the Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional training course (CICP) and will be available to learners who opt for the Professional version of the …