To better understand the need for education and training programs and ongoing efforts to expand available resources, it is important to understand what currently exists and how that material is evolving.
The Department of Energy (DOE) previously undertook an effort called the Secure Power System Professional (SPSP) to map what skills a power system professional must have to understand the emerging cybersecurity needs.
The SANS Institute’s Global Industrial Cybersecurity Professional (GICSP) certification that aims to bridge the gap between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) and provide the base knowledge necessary to operate broadly in the OT domain.
The NCAE-C program has further developed specific KUs, including focus areas targeting ICS, but with little specificity for application. This coalition has the potential to create an active and far more effective ecosystem of educational design and practice.
This coalition seeks to advance these efforts by increasing access to available, paratactical and relevant educational material useful to institutions, businesses, governments, and educational entities that are building the scaffolding for workforce skillset creation using a needs-driven and solutions-oriented approach to education and training.