From the power grid to water treatment facilities, SCADA controls our nation’s mission critical infrastructure. Infosec’s ICS/SCADA Boot Camp builds your homeland security skills by teaching you how to assess and secure SCADA systems — and you’ll gain hands-on experience on the latest threats via our SCADA Cyber Range.

You’ll learn everything from field-based attacks to automated vulnerability assessments for SCADA networks. The boot camp also prepares you to pass the CSSA certification exam and become a Certified SCADA Security Architect.

• Five days of training with an expert instructor
• Infosec digital courseware (physical textbooks available to purchase)
• Certified SCADA Security Architect (CSSA) exam voucher
• 90-day access to SCADA Cyber Range (Flex Pro)
• 90-day access to course replays (Flex Pro)
• Curated videos from other top-rated instructors (add-on)
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
• Exam Pass Guarantee (Flex Pro)

• SCADA system operators
• SCADA analysts
• Control systems engineers
• ICS and SCADA consultants
• IT and security professionals with a desire to learn how to protect critical infrastructure

• Understanding of computer hardware and operating systems
• Basic knowledge of SCADA systems

This boot camp prepares you to properly secure the SCADA systems used in a variety of industries, including power transmission, oil and gas and water treatment. You’ll build your knowledge and skills needed to successfully pass the CSSA exam, including:

• SCADA security policy development
• SCADA security standards and best practices
• Access control
• SCADA protocol security issues
• Securing field communications
• User authentication and authorization
• Detecting cyber-attacks on SCADA systems
• Vulnerability assessment

We don’t just have great instructors, our instructors have years of industry experience and are recognized as experts. Over the past 15 years, we’ve helped tens of thousands of students get certified and advance their careers.

Our industry-leading curriculum and expert instructors have led to the highest pass rates in the industry. More than 93% of Infosec students pass their certification exams on their first attempt.

Part 1
SCADA/ICS Overview

• Introduction to CSSA
• Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
• Types of ICS
• ICS components
• BPCS & SIS
• Control system strengths and weaknesses
• ICS PCN & protocols
• PCN evolution
• Modbus / DNP3 / HART
• Lab: Modbus PLC
• IT vs. ICS
• RS-232 and RS-485
• TASE 2.0 / ICCP
• CIP
• PROFIBUS / PROFINET
• FOUNDATION fieldbus
• Open vs. proprietary protocols
• HMI applications
• HMI/OIT implementations
• OPC and OPC UA
• Data historians
• Integration software (ERP/MES)

Part 2
SCADA security governance

• Threat to SCADA
• SCADA attacks and threats case studies
• Lab: Attacking the infrastructure
• SCADA security challenge
• Security frameworks, strategy, policies
• Standards, procedures and guidelines
• SCADA security standards bodies (NIST / ISA / CFATS / NERC CIP)
• Risk management process
• Lab: “Theoretical” assessment with CSET
• SCADA security assessment methodology
• NESCOR guide to vulnerability assessment

Part 3
Pentesting SCADA systems

• Security assessment strategy
• Pentesting steps
• Safety and security considerations
• Information gathering
• Architecture analysis
• Host, application and platform fingerprinting
• DNS and SNMP recon
• Lab: SNMP recon
• Host and port scanning
• Security considerations
• Scanning tools and techniques
• Lab: Scanning ICS/SCADA networks
• Network communications capture and analysis
• RF signal capture

• Sniffing network traffic
• Device functionality analysis
• Lab: Datasheet analysis
• Vulnerability identification
• Common SCADA vulnerabilities
• Finding vulnerabilities
• Physical access
• Vulnerability scanning
• Server OS testing
• Patch levels
• Default and insecure configurations
• Authentication and remote access
• Firmware analysis
• Attacking ICS
• Attacking standard services (HTTP, FTP)
• Attacking server OS
• Lab: Exploiting OS-level vulnerabilities (Shellshock exploit)
• Attacking ISC Protocols
• Lab: Capturing and manipulating protocol data
• Attacking wireless communications
• Lab: Recovering ZigBee network keys
• Lab: WEP/WPA2 password cracking

Part 4
SCADA security controls

• Categorization of system controls
• Physical security & safety
• Identification, Authentication & Authorization (IA&A)
• IA&A and access control
• Remote access security
• Encryption
• Logical security
• Lab: Firewall rule design
• Monitoring, detection and protection
• Secure SCADA architecture
• Lab: Security architecture (group discussion)
• IDS/IPS (Introduction to Snort)
• Log monitoring and management
• Lab: SCADA honeypot (Conpot)
• Lab: Snort SCADA rules (Quickdraw)
• Incident response
• Anti-malware
• Application whitelisting
• Patch management
• Active Directory and group policy
• Summary of good security practices