SEC600: Process Control Software, Hardware and Cyber Security

The SEC600 course provides a comprehensive overview of securing industrial process control systems. It covers the importance of cybersecurity, data protection, and effective access controls to safeguard control systems from unauthorized access and potential cyber threats.

This course is designed for process control engineers, supervisors, managers, DCS/PLC technicians/operators, and laboratory technicians involved in the operation, management, or security of process control systems.

There are no prerequisites for this course. It is suitable for professionals at all levels, including those new to process control systems or cybersecurity.

The SEC600 course can be taken in a 1-day classroom format or as a 4-hour online course, providing flexibility to fit your schedule.

You'll gain a strong understanding of process control system security, including network architecture, user access controls, preventing unauthorized access, securing proprietary data, and managing remote access security.

Cybersecurity is crucial to protect process control systems from cyberattacks, unauthorized access, and data breaches, ensuring the integrity, reliability, and safety of industrial operations.

The L0 – L4 model represents the various levels of an industrial process control network. SEC600 covers each level and its role in maintaining secure communications and operations across the entire network.

The SEC600 course teaches you best practices for managing user IDs, passwords, and access control policies, as well as the importance of enforcing security measures to prevent unauthorized entry into the control room and DCS/PLC systems.

You will learn about control room access controls, including the use of magnetic card access, managing DCS/PLC configuration access, and personnel security measures to ensure safe operations.

The course provides strategies for protecting proprietary data and intellectual property, including ensuring that data is not shared with unauthorized parties and that systems are secure from external threats.

You will learn how to implement regular virus patches and system updates to protect process control systems from potential vulnerabilities and threats that could disrupt operations.

SEC600 covers the importance of securing remote access to process control systems, ensuring that remote support, monitoring, and control do not compromise system integrity or security.

Participants will receive security forms that can be directly used at the plant for enforcing security policies, such as signature sheets for staff members involved in security enforcement and audit procedures.

The course teaches how to conduct formal process control audits to assess and ensure the reliability, security, and proper functioning of your control systems.

SEC600 offers guidance on forming and training teams responsible for managing the security of process control systems, including their role in audits, security enforcement, and system monitoring.

While courses like PID100 or DCS400 focus on configuration and tuning, SEC600 ensures that those systems are protected from cyber risks, bridging the gap between technical performance and secure operations.

Yes. The course includes guidance on framing cybersecurity needs for management, auditors, and non-technical departments to secure funding and policy support.

Absolutely. SEC600 addresses internal vulnerabilities by teaching access monitoring, role-based authorization, and behavior-based risk detection strategies.

Yes. The course includes modern concerns such as network segmentation, endpoint protection, and secure integration of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) systems.

While not a certification course, SEC600 introduces core principles aligned with major standards and helps participants apply them in a practical industrial setting.

The course covers strategies to manage and secure control rooms with equipment from multiple vendors, reducing the risk of compatibility-related vulnerabilities.

Yes. SEC600 equips you with audit tools, risk mitigation frameworks, and business continuity arguments that demonstrate ROI and long-term cost savings of cybersecurity.

The course offers approaches for modernizing security without overhauling infrastructure, like layered access control, manual logging, and selective segmentation.

Yes. SEC600 explores the risks associated with USB drives, laptops, and mobile access and offers clear guidelines for safe usage in control system environments.