Field report: Intensive technical training at Vattenfall in Berlin
In the area of training, the Cybersecurity Learning Lab offers customized intensive technical training for companies in the energy and water supply sector as in-house seminars but also as open courses. Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG has already been using this offer since 2019. After the Corona-related restrictions, we were already able to hold three dates for Vattenfall this year at the Berlin Fraunhofer Forum in Präsenz. Participants of the technical intensive courses were primarily control and telecontrol engineers, team leaders in this area, but also trainers for operating technology and electronic professions.
With a very high proportion of practical content, the technical intensive courses offer participants a very compact, but at the same time also deep insight into the topics of attack threats and defense strategies, especially for process IT infrastructures.
A 3-day course was developed for Vattenfall Wärme, which starts with the current legal requirements and standards and leads via the network and security basics in utilities to the extensive exercises along the "cyber kill chain" the defense basics, the attack detections up to the protection of ICS components.
The hands-on training sessions are conducted on the mobile training platform, which is designed to enable training participants to directly apply what they have learned and transfer it to their daily work. The training is usually conducted by 2 to 3 instructors, which allows for very individual support of the 8-10 participants and ensures successful implementation of the seminars even for groups with different levels of prior knowledge.