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Course Overview

In today’s increasingly digitized energy landscape, the integration of digital technologies in critical infrastructure—especially the power sector—has introduced significant cybersecurity concerns. Traditional IT security approaches fall short when addressing the distinct priorities of industrial control systems (ICS), which prioritize system availability and safety over data confidentiality. Learning about cybersecurity in the power sector and smart grids is essential for understanding the evolving threat landscape, protecting vital national infrastructure, and maintaining reliable energy delivery. This course offers a focused exploration of these pressing issues, providing learners with the tools and frameworks necessary to build a resilient cybersecurity posture for energy systems.

This course begins with an analysis of how cyber threats have evolved in industrial environments, highlighting differences between IT and OT security objectives and examining real-world attacks in the power sector. It then delves into the key cybersecurity challenges faced by energy organizations, using structured frameworks to analyze threats, identify perpetrators, and determine appropriate responses. Learners will gain an understanding of foundational security concepts such as identity, trust, access control, and privacy. The course also explores core components of a robust cybersecurity strategy—prevention, detection, response, and recovery—followed by a five-step methodology to guide secure system architecture and compliance. The final modules cover privacy concerns in smart grids and the technical mechanisms that secure smart grid infrastructure, such as cryptography, key management, and device-level protections.

This chapter equips learners with practical skills and conceptual clarity to identify, assess, and mitigate cyber risks in power and smart grid systems effectively.

What You Will Learn

  • Prevent, detect, respond and recover from power sector cybersecurity threats.
  • Understand security requirements (Identification, Authentication, Authorization, Trust, Access Control, and Privacy).
  • Discover a five-step methodology that your cybersecurity strategy should consider.
  • Privacy impact assessment and mitigating factors.
  • Emerging smart grid privacy risks.

Program Curriculum

  • Differences of Industrial and Information Technology Cybersecurity Objectives
  • Evolution of Attacks in the Industry
  • Attacks Targeting the Power Sector
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Framework Overview
  • Appreciation of Threat
  • Discovering the Threat
  • Identifying the Perpetrator or the Source of the Danger
  • Determining the Appropriate Response
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Identification, Authentication, and Authorization
  • Trust 
  • Access Control
  • Privacy 
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Prevention
  • Detection
  • Response
  • Recovery 
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Selection of Use Cases with Cybersecurity Considerations
  • Risk Assessment Methodology
  • High-level Security Requirements
  • Development of Security Architecture and Assessment of Innovative Grid Standards
  • Conformity Assessment
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Privacy Impact Assessment and Mitigating Factors
  • Emerging Smart Grid Privacy Risks
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Device Level
  • Cryptography 
  • Key Management
  • Systems-level
  • Networking Issues in Research and Development
  • Chapter 7 Quiz
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Instructor

Felipe Costa

Felipe is an ICS (Industrial Control System) Cybersecurity Expert with more than + 16 years inside the industry dealing with different technologies. He is the cybersecurity director of ISA (International Society of Automation) in Brazil. ISA is responsible for the industrial cybersecurity standard IEC-62443 to protect critical systems. Felipe is also the current Technical Cybersecurity Responsible in LATAM at Moxa. He is in charge of the cybersecurity projects providing secure topologies, technology recommendations to smart grid applications in more than 20 countries and cooperating with US cybersecurity experts. Felipe is also an international speaker & author of technical articles published globally in the field of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, and more recently, in how to enhance cybersecurity with artificial intelligence usage. He had the opportunity to present in different countries and events, including the artificial intelligence and cybersecurity event to NASA experts in the US. He has more than +20 Cybersecurity certifications in different US universities including the US homeland security department training for protecting industrial control systems, besides a Master Science in Industrial Cybersecurity in Spain.

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