CSVVEE-CI – Critical Infrastructure Security V&V Engineer Certification Program by Tonex
This advanced certification program prepares engineers, architects, and assurance specialists to plan and execute rigorous verification and validation for critical infrastructure systems. Participants explore how to translate mission, safety, and reliability requirements into traceable V and V activities across operational technology, industrial control, and cyber physical environments. The program addresses real world challenges in energy, transportation, communications, and other essential services, emphasizing resilience under fault, failure, and attack conditions.
Strong focus is placed on the intersection of systems engineering, safety engineering, and security engineering, enabling participants to design evidence based arguments that critical functions behave as intended. Cybersecurity risk to critical infrastructure is treated as a first order concern, with attention to securing interfaces, data paths, and control logic. The course highlights the growing impact of cybersecurity on V and V practice, including protection of control networks, safety instrumented functions, and monitoring assets from sophisticated threats. By completion, participants are equipped to lead multidisciplinary V and V efforts that support compliance, stakeholder confidence, and continuous improvement of critical infrastructure.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the role of verification and validation in assuring critical infrastructure performance and safety
- Translate stakeholder, safety, and reliability requirements into structured V and V plans
- Apply model based techniques and test strategies across hardware, software, and control systems
- Evaluate evidence from inspection, analysis, and testing to support engineering assurance decisions
- Assess how cybersecurity risk affects V and V scope and activities for critical infrastructure
- Collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and risk teams to resolve V and V findings
- Prepare defensible V and V documentation that supports regulatory and organizational compliance
Audience
- Critical infrastructure engineers and architects
- Systems and reliability engineers
- Verification and validation specialists
- OT and ICS security engineers
- Cybersecurity Professionals
- Risk, compliance, and assurance managers
- Government and industry regulators and assessors
Program Modules
Module 1: Risk based critical infrastructure V&V foundations
- Critical infrastructure categories and dependencies
- Role of V and V in assurance
- Standards and regulatory expectations overview
- Lifecycle views for complex infrastructures
- Interfaces between IT OT and physical systems
- Risk based prioritization of V and V effort
Module 2: Requirements engineering for critical infrastructure V&V
- Capturing mission and stakeholder needs
- Deriving safety and security requirements
- Allocating requirements across system elements
- Establishing traceability to V and V activities
- Managing changes and configuration baselines
- Requirements quality criteria and review techniques
Module 3: Modeling verification methods for cyber physical systems
- System and subsystem modeling approaches
- Failure modes and effects perspectives
- Hazard analysis inputs to V and V
- Selecting analytical versus test based methods
- Coverage definitions for functions and interfaces
- Tool qualification and model credibility arguments
Module 4: Validation strategies for safety critical operations
- Operational scenarios and use case selection
- Field representative test environments planning
- End to end functional validation techniques
- Human factors and operational procedures considerations
- Performance resilience and degradation assessment
- Documenting validation results and residual risk
Module 5: Cybersecurity focused verification and validation workflows
- Cyber physical threat modeling for infrastructures
- Security controls verification within V and V
- Network segmentation and access path review
- Secure configuration and patch validation processes
- Detection response and logging verification
- Integrating cybersecurity evidence into assurance cases
Module 6: Assurance reporting compliance and continuous improvement
- Structure and content of V and V reports
- Communicating findings to leadership and regulators
- Supporting certification and accreditation processes
- Metrics for V and V program effectiveness
- Lessons learned and feedback into design
- Planning continuous assurance for system evolution
Exam Domains
- Critical Infrastructure Risk and Resilience Fundamentals
- Systems Engineering and Requirements Assurance
- Verification Methods for Complex Infrastructure Systems
- Validation Planning and Operational Readiness Assessment
- Cybersecurity Assurance for Critical Infrastructure
- Compliance Evidence Management and Assurance Reporting
Course Delivery
The course is delivered through a combination of expert led lectures, interactive discussions, and guided project based learning focused on real critical infrastructure contexts. Participants engage with case studies, structured templates, and practical exercises that reinforce V and V concepts across diverse sectors. The program can be delivered in person or live online and includes curated digital resources, readings, and illustrative examples that help participants apply methods directly to their own environments.
Assessment and Certification
Participants are assessed through quizzes, structured assignments, and a capstone style V and V plan or assurance case that integrates course concepts. Performance is evaluated on technical accuracy, clarity of reasoning, and practical relevance to critical infrastructure operations. Upon successful completion of the program requirements and the final exam, participants receive the CSVVEE-CI – Critical Infrastructure Security V&V Engineer Certification from Tonex.
Question Types
- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
- Scenario-based Questions
Passing Criteria
To pass the CSVVEE-CI – Critical Infrastructure Security V&V Engineer Certification Program exam, candidates must achieve a score of 70% or higher.
Advance your role in protecting essential services by becoming a certified Critical Infrastructure Security V and V Engineer with Tonex. Enroll in the CSVVEE-CI program to deepen your technical assurance skills, strengthen cybersecurity focused V and V practice, and demonstrate trusted expertise to your organization and regulators.