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COURSE OVERVIEW

IE0242 : Operating System Hardening for OT Environments
Operating System Hardening for OT Environments
OVERVIEW
COURSE TITLE : IE0242 : Operating System Hardening for OT Environments
COURSE DATE : Jul 06 - Jul 10 2025
DURATION : 5 Days
INSTRUCTOR : Mr. Barry Pretorius
VENUE : Istanbul, Turkey
COURSE FEE : $ 6000
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Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 
 
This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Operating System Hardening for OT Environments. It covers the differences between IT and OT security; the operating system hardening and threat landscape for OT systems; the regulatory and compliance standards for OT security; the risk assessment and security baselines for OT operating systems; the hardening strategies for Windows and Linux in OT; the secure installation and patch management, secure user and account management and secure remote access for OT systems; and the network segmentation, isolation strategies, hardening services and processes. 
 
During this interactive course, participants will learn the secure boot and trusted execution and hardening application security in OT systems; the secure logging and monitoring for OT systems, endpoint protection and malware defenses; the. file system and storage hardening, secure industrial protocols and communication and lateral movement and privilege escalation; the incident response plan for OT systems, security forensics and threat intelligence in OT; the business continuity and disaster recovery for OT security; and the compliance audits and security assessments. 

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

Lectures
Practical Workshops & Work Presentations
Hands-on Practical Exercises & Case Studies
Simulators (Hardware & Software) & Videos

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates : Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials : Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology : 80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program : 4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30

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