IEC 62443 Industrial Automation & Control Systems Security Training
Standard-aligned training for securing Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) to IEC 62443 — built for asset owners, system integrators, and product suppliers across manufacturing, energy, water, and every other OT-heavy industry.
Four modules, built around who touches the risk
IEC 62443 Foundations — Zones, Conduits, and Security Levels
The shared vocabulary — how the standard is structured, how OT risk is modeled, and why IACS security is not IT security with a different logo.
OT/ICS Engineers & System Integrators
Applying zones, conduits, and Security Level targets to real control-system architectures, from design through commissioning.
IT Security Staff Supporting OT
Bridging enterprise security practice into the plant floor without breaking the availability and safety priorities that govern OT.
Asset Owners & Compliance Leadership — with Extensive Program Governance
Building and defending an IEC 62443-2-1-aligned security program, covered in depth.
IEC 62443 Foundations — Zones, Conduits, and Security Levels
IEC 62443 is the internationally recognized series of standards for securing Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS), developed jointly by the ISA99 committee and IEC TC65/WG10. It is organized into four families — General, Policies & Procedures, System, and Component/Product — with 62443-2-1 setting security program requirements for asset owners, 62443-3-3 defining system-level security requirements and Security Levels, 62443-4-1 governing a secure product development lifecycle for suppliers, and 62443-4-2 setting technical requirements for individual components. The standard's core architecture divides a facility into security zones — groupings of assets that share common security requirements — connected by conduits that carry and control traffic between them. Each zone is assigned a target Security Level (SL-T, from SL 1 to SL 4) based on the sophistication of attacker it must resist, later validated as an achieved level (SL-A). This module builds that shared foundation before splitting into role-specific tracks.
Core Risk Areas Covered
Zones & Conduits Segmentation Gaps
Flat, unsegmented OT networks let an attacker who breaches one device move laterally across an entire plant.
Insufficient Security Level Targeting
Zones assigned an SL-T that understates real threat exposure leave critical assets protected against the wrong adversary.
Legacy & Unpatched IACS Components
Controllers and HMIs built before IEC 62443-4-2 existed often cannot be patched without a scheduled outage.
Insecure Remote Vendor & Third-Party Access
OEM and integrator remote-access paths into the control network are a leading route into OT environments.
Unverified Component Supply-Chain Security
Procuring IACS products without evidence of IEC 62443-4-1/4-2 conformance imports risk before a system is even commissioned.
IT/OT Convergence Blind Spots
As enterprise IT tools extend onto the plant floor, monitoring and incident response often fail to cover both domains together.
The Regulatory Landscape, Explained Plainly
EU NIS2 Directive
Article 21 requires essential and important entities — including most manufacturing, energy, and water operators — to adopt risk-management measures, but the Directive is deliberately outcome-based rather than prescriptive; standards bodies such as DNV map its Article 21(2) requirements directly onto IEC 62443-2-1 controls, making the standard the practical implementation path OT-heavy entities use to demonstrate compliance.
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI formally accepted the European Commission's CRA standardization request (Mandate M/606) on 3 April 2025, committing to deliver harmonized standards at least a year before CRA obligations take effect on 11 December 2027; CEN-CENELEC's own September 2025 workshop, "From EN IEC 62443 to CRA," confirms IEC 62443 as the base document for OT product standards covering CRA "Important" Class I and II products.
EU Machinery Regulation (2023/1230)
Applying from 20 January 2027, the Regulation adds a new essential health-and-safety requirement protecting machinery against "corruption" — unauthorized digital manipulation; with no dedicated harmonized standard yet in force, standards commentators expect the forthcoming EN 50742 to be built on IEC 62443's zone, conduit, and Security Level concepts rather than a competing framework.
Regulatory emphasis is tailored to your country and jurisdiction — tell us where you operate in the form below and we'll scope the frameworks that matter most to you.
Built Around Who Actually Touches the Risk
After the shared foundation, participants split into focused tracks — each built from the systems and decisions that group actually owns.
OT/ICS Engineers & System Integrators
Control Systems Engineers · System Integrators · Automation Vendors
IT Security Staff Supporting OT
Enterprise Security Analysts · SOC Staff · IT/OT Liaisons
"OT security fails most often at the handoff — when an IT security decision meets a control system it wasn't designed for, or an engineering change meets a compliance requirement no one on the floor was trained to see. Splitting this training into an OT/ICS engineering track and an IT-security-supporting-OT track means each group gets the depth their job actually requires, while both walk away speaking the same IEC 62443 vocabulary of zones, conduits, and Security Levels — so the handoff stops being where things go wrong."
OT/ICS Engineers & System Integrators — Scenarios
IT Security Staff Supporting OT — Scenarios
Format for These Tracks
Asset Owners & Compliance Leadership
OT Security Program Owners · Compliance & Risk Leaders · Procurement Leadership
Asset owners carry the obligations IEC 62443 places at the top of the stack: standing up a Cybersecurity Management System aligned to 62443-2-1, setting Security Level targets across every zone, and holding suppliers and integrators to the requirements the standard sets for them. This deep-dive module is built for the people who own that program end to end — running the risk assessment that sets SL-T decisions, writing procurement language that requires IEC 62443-4-1 conformance from suppliers, preparing for third-party conformance assessment, and translating all of it into language a board, regulator, or insurer will accept. It closes with the regulatory landscape — NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, and sector-specific mandates — mapped directly onto the program elements this module builds.
Covered in Depth
- Instructor-led workshops
- Self-paced e-learning modules
- Tabletop & incident-response exercises
- Executive & board-level briefings
All four modules can be delivered together as a full program, or the role-specific tracks can be licensed independently for organisations that only need one audience covered.
The stakes behind the training
One Standard, Every Stakeholder
IEC 62443 defines distinct obligations for asset owners, integrators, and product suppliers — our modules mirror that structure instead of flattening it into one generic course.
Compliance Is Not Optional
NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, and sector-specific mandates increasingly point to IEC 62443 as the recognized way to prove OT risk is managed — this training builds the evidence, not just the awareness.
People, Not Just Paperwork
A Cybersecurity Management System is only as strong as the engineers, integrators, and analysts who operate it — we train the people who make zones, conduits, and Security Levels real.
Bring IEC 62443-aligned training to your OT program, engineering team, or supply chain.
Schedule a consultation to scope the right modules for your asset owners, integrators, and suppliers. Tell us your country and we'll tailor the regulatory focus and delivery format to your region.
Modular by design
Run the full four-module program, or license just the tracks your organisation needs — built on the shared foundation module.
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