This October, SecurityWeek, in partnership with MTSI, will offer the Cyber Attack Methods (CAM) course for the second consecutive year as part of the 25th Anniversary Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference.
Understanding how adversaries compromise cyber-physical systems requires more than reading threat reports or reviewing lists of attack techniques. Defenders must understand how attackers examine a system, identify opportunities and connect individual weaknesses to achieve a larger operational objective.
The multi-day, hands-on course will take place October 6–8 at the W Nashville alongside the special 25th anniversary edition of the ICS Cybersecurity Conference.
Learning to Think Like an Attacker
Cyber-physical systems connect digital components with equipment and processes in the physical world. A successful attack against these environments can extend far beyond the loss of data or temporary system downtime, potentially affecting safety, mission readiness, productivity, revenue and the availability of essential services.
CAM is designed to help participants understand how those attacks unfold by placing them directly in the role of an adversary.
Working inside an intentionally vulnerable virtual cyber-physical environment, students will progress through system discovery, vulnerability exploitation and the execution of mission-focused attacks. Rather than discussing adversary behavior only in theory, participants will work through the attack process with their hands on the keyboard.
The objective is not to turn students into hackers. It is to give the people responsible for designing, building, testing and protecting cyber-physical systems a practical understanding of how attackers think and operate.