Certified Critical Infrastructure Cyber Defense Specialist (CCICDS) Certification Program by Tonex
The Certified Critical Infrastructure Cyber Defense Specialist (CCICDS) Certification Program by Tonex prepares professionals to protect essential services. It focuses on risks, governance, threat intelligence, and sector-specific defense. You learn to secure converged OT, ICS, and IT environments. You assess vulnerabilities across energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and public services. You design controls for segmentation, monitoring, and rapid response.
The program stresses resilience, continuity, and recovery planning. It aligns prevention with detection and decisive action. It teaches clear decision frameworks and executive communication. You align practices with NIST CSF, IEC 62443, ISO 27001, and sector guidance. You build detection pipelines and incident playbooks. You apply tabletop exercises and case studies to reinforce decisions.
You strengthen supply chain defenses and third-party oversight. You integrate asset inventory and configuration baselines. You implement zero-trust principles for critical operations. You improve time to detect and time to respond. You communicate risk clearly to executives and regulators.
The cybersecurity impact is direct. It reduces attack surface and limits lateral movement. It safeguards safety, uptime, and revenue. It protects sensitive operational data and control systems.
It improves compliance posture and audit readiness. It builds a culture of resilience across plants and networks. Graduates leave ready to anticipate threats and coordinate decisive action. They help keep communities safe and services available. Under pressure situations.
Learning Objectives:
- Map critical functions, assets, and interdependencies
- Design segmented, defensible OT/ICS architectures
- Engineer detections and response playbooks for CI environments
- Execute safe containment, recovery, and reconstitution strategies
- Govern risk, compliance, and third-party assurance programs
- Communicate cyber risk and resilience metrics to leadership
Audience:
- Cybersecurity Professionals
- OT/ICS Engineers and Operators
- SOC Analysts and Incident Responders
- Risk and Compliance Managers
- Network and Security Architects
- Utility and Plant Leaders, Public Sector Teams
Course Modules:
Module 1: CI foundations and threat landscape
- Asset and process mapping
- OT vs IT convergence basics
- Adversaries and ICS-focused TTPs
- Sector interdependencies analysis
- Critical function prioritization
- Governance, roles, and policies
Module 2: Architecture and hardening for OT/ICS
- Zones, conduits, and segmentation
- DMZs, jump hosts, one-way gateways
- Secure remote and privileged access
- Asset inventory and SBOM practices
- OT-aware patch and vuln management
- Baselines and change control
Module 3: Monitoring, detection, and telemetry
- PLC/HMI/historian logging approaches
- OT-aware IDS and anomaly methods
- Use cases mapped to ATT&CK for ICS
- Time sync and data integrity
- Alert triage and escalation paths
- MTTD/MTTR metrics and tuning
Module 4: Incident response and recovery
- Safety-first containment options
- Playbooks for ransomware and supply chain events
- OT forensics without disruption
- Stakeholder and regulator communications
- Backup, restore, and reconstitution steps
- Post-incident reviews and fixes
Module 5: Risk, compliance, and resilience
- Risk methods and scoring adaptations
- BIA, RTO/RPO definition
- Continuity and crisis management
- NERC CIP, NIS2, ISO mapping
- Third-party and vendor oversight
- Readiness testing and maturity reviews
Module 6: Secure operations and improvement
- Zero-trust patterns for operations
- Change management and MOC
- Secure procurement and lifecycle
- Threat intel ingestion and sharing
- KPIs, dashboards, and reporting
- Roadmap and investment planning
Exam Domains:
- National CI Frameworks and Policy
- OT/ICS Adversaries, Campaigns, and Tactics
- Defensive Architecture and Segmentation
- Detection Engineering and Telemetry for CI
- Incident Response, Crisis, and Recovery
- Governance, Compliance, and Resilience
Course Delivery:
Expert-led lectures, interactive discussions, guided workshops, and project-based learning. Participants access curated readings, sector case studies, and practical tools to apply methods on the job.
Assessment and Certification:
Quizzes, assignments, and a capstone project. Upon successful completion, participants receive the CCICDS certificate from Tonex.
Question Types:
- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
- Scenario-based Questions
Passing Criteria:
To pass the CCICDS Certification Training exam, candidates must achieve a score of 70% or higher.
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