Process Control Cybersecurity for Power Transmission Systems – Strengthening Grid Resilience Through Secure Operations and Engineering

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand transmission-specific OT and ICS architectures.
• Identify cyber threats to power transmission operations.
• Apply Cyber-Informed Engineering principles to reduce operational risk.
• Design secure OT network architectures.
• Develop incident response and recovery plans for utility environments.
• Improve operational resilience against sophisticated cyber threats.

• Transmission Engineers responsible for the design, operation, maintenance, reliability and technical improvement of high-voltage transmission networks, substations and associated electrical infrastructure.
• SCADA Engineers accountable for the design, configuration, integration, maintenance and security of SCADA systems, RTUs, control-centre systems and communications supporting transmission operations.
• Control Systems Engineers involving in the design, integration, commissioning, maintenance and lifecycle management of EMS, substation automation, PLCs, IEDs, protective relays and other industrial control systems.
• Cybersecurity Specialists protecting operational technology and industrial control environments through risk assessment, vulnerability management, network security, monitoring, access control, threat detection and incident response.
• Grid operators for monitoring and control of real-time transmission networks, managing system conditions, responding to disturbances and maintaining safe, reliable and continuous grid operations.
• Reliability & Compliance Personnel ensuring transmission operations comply with applicable cybersecurity, reliability, regulatory and industry requirements, including conducting assessments, audits, gap analysis and compliance activities.
• Utility managers controlling transmission operations, OT, cybersecurity, engineering or reliability functions, including team leadership, risk management, governance, resource allocation, resilience planning and executive decision-making.

• Basic
• Intermediate

This training programme adopts a practical, interactive and scenario-based learning approach, combining instructor-led presentations with real-world case studies, hands-on laboratory activities, technical workshops, group discussions and practical exercises. Participants will apply cybersecurity concepts to electric transmission environments through activities such as SCADA data-flow analysis, secure OT network design, protocol security assessment, OT access-control modelling, compliance gap assessment and cybersecurity risk-register development. Scenario-based and tabletop exercises will allow participants to practise responding to transmission cyber incidents, including control-centre compromise, substation disruption and operational decision-making. The programme concludes with a comprehensive capstone simulation, where participants apply the knowledge gained to incident response, recovery planning, resilience improvement and executive reporting.

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