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 national electrical grid. They manage this extremely complex grid operation via the National Load Dispatch center as well as several regional centers, known as RLDC (Regional Load Dispatch Center)
The grid has several types of power plants supplying electrical energy to it at various voltage levels. Power generation plants include those run on Coal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar and Wind. On the other hand entire India consumes this power whether for domestic use, industrial use or other purposes such as transportation.
All the different interconnections between these power producers to the grid on one side and power consumers on the other side is managed efficiently and safely by Grid India by using different types of SCADA systems. This is classified as critical infrastructure.
SCADA Cyber Security training
Naturally, SCADA cyber security is a very important aspect of their operation and this SCADA cyber security training was much appreciated by the participants.
The session covered many aspects, including the applicability and usefulness of standards such as IEC 62443 (IS 62443 in India).
Why is SCADA Cyber Security training important?
Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion (SCADA) Systems are used extensively in many industrial sectors such as in Oil and Gas pipelines, Electrical Grids and Water & Wastewater management. Large SCADA networks can span huge areas, such as an entire country. It is important to protect these SCADA systems from cyber threats. Here is some more information on SCADA Cyber Security.
About Abhisam’s Cyber Security training
Abhisam has several courses on Industrial Cybersecurity including the popular, self paced e-learning course named CICP-Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional course. SCADA Cybersecurity is included as a part of this course. Download the CICP brochure here.
Abhisam also conducts other Instructor led, classroom style OT cybersecurity workshops such as the “Understanding OT Cybersecurity and IEC 62443” workshop that was held several times in Mumbai and earlier at client sites in Vadodara and Dahej.
Abhisam has other OT cybersecurity courses in the e-learning format, including OT Cybersecurity Awareness and OT Cybersecurity Fundamentals course. Soon a new course on Cyber PHA is also being launched.
For more information about ICS/SCADA cyber security training please contact us.
