2006 Process Control and SCADA Security Summit Part II and DHS, DOE courses, Sept. 28-30
The U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Energy will offer free classes during Part II of the SCADA Security Summit for control system engineers and IT professionals who need or want a deeper understanding of security in control systems. The courses, both introductory and intermediate, will be held Sept. 28-30 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
There are 40 seats for the full-day, hands-on course and 120 seats for the half-day course; both of are taught by experts at Idaho National Laboratory and said to be fast-paced. The classes are meant not only to facilitate students in understanding how attacks against SCADA systems are launched and why they work, but also to provide mitigation strategies to increase the cyber security posture of one’s control system network.
The introductory course is targeted to system managers and control operators for power and energy generation, transmission and distribution organizations. It will cover, among other topics, common vulnerabilities of control systems, inappropriate use of wireless communication, and lack of detection and logging of intrusion. There will also be a cyber security awareness demonstration video.
The intermediate course is a more technical class and attendees are required to bring a laptop. Information security personnel, SCADA security personnel, network engineers, and SCADA engineers/integrators and developers are recommended to take this more hands-on course. Among the topics planned are general security observations and pitfalls, dissecting SCADA protocols, and common programming pitfalls.
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