OT security and industrial connectivity
OT Cybersecurity Awareness Training
Protect production by building security awareness on the shop floor.
Many cyber incidents in industrial environments do not start with sophisticated attacks against PLCs or control systems. They start with everyday actions such as opening a malicious email, using an unknown USB drive, sharing credentials, or giving a third party unnecessary remote access.
Our OT Cybersecurity Awareness Training helps employees understand how their actions can affect production and teaches them how to recognize and respond to common cyber risks in industrial environments.
The training is designed for manufacturers and industrial companies that want to improve security without overwhelming employees with technical detail.
Practical training. Relevant examples. Focused on keeping production running.
Why it matters
People Can Be Your Strongest Defense or Your Weakest Link
Technology alone cannot protect a production environment. Operators, maintenance teams, engineers, contractors, and office staff all make decisions every day that can either strengthen security or create an opening for an attacker.
OT cybersecurity awareness helps employees recognize risky situations, avoid common mistakes, and understand how their actions can affect production.
Just as importantly, it prepares them to react correctly when something does happen. Knowing when to stop, what not to touch, who to contact, and how to report suspicious activity can make the difference between a contained incident and a production outage.
The goal is not only to reduce the likelihood of an incident, but to make sure your team is ready to respond quickly and effectively when one occurs.
Build Better Security Habits
Employees develop practical habits for working safely around production systems, from handling removable media to using engineering workstations and shared infrastructure.
Understand the Consequences of Everyday Actions
Teams see how routine decisions can affect production, equipment availability, data integrity, and business continuity.
Make Safer Access Decisions
Staff learn when remote access, external devices, vendor connections, or account sharing can introduce unnecessary exposure.
Respond with Confidence
Employees know how to act when something feels wrong, including when to stop work, what information to preserve, and how to escalate the issue quickly.
Audience
Who should attend
Training can be tailored to different roles within your organization. Typical participant groups include:
Shop Floor Personnel
Focus on recognizing suspicious activity, responding correctly to potential incidents, and following good practices that reduce the likelihood of cyber incidents.
Engineers & IT Personnel
Focus on defense in depth, common attack paths, how attacks against industrial environments work, and the technical measures that can prevent or contain them.
Plant Managers & Decision Makers
Focus on understanding cyber risks, operational and financial consequences, risk mitigation, governance, and how to prioritize cybersecurity investments.
Different groups face different risks, so the training content can be adapted to their responsibilities and level of technical knowledge.
Content
Training topics
01
What makes OT different
Understand why production systems cannot be treated like standard office IT, and how cyber incidents can affect machines, processes, safety, quality, and uptime.
02
How cyber attacks reach production
Learn the most common paths attackers use to move from office IT, remote access, service laptops, or compromised accounts into industrial environments.
03
The Defence in Depth concept
Learn why OT security relies on multiple layers of protection, and how segmentation, access control, monitoring, secure remote access, and good operational practices work together to reduce risk.
04
Safe use of removable media
Understand how USB drives, service laptops, and transferred files can introduce malware into production systems, even when those systems are not directly connected to the internet.
05
Protect accounts and credentials
Learn why shared accounts, weak passwords, excessive privileges, and reused credentials create unnecessary exposure, and how better access practices reduce that risk.
06
Make remote access safer
Understand the risks associated with vendor connections, VPN access, remote maintenance, unattended sessions, and third party support.
07
Protect the physical side of cybersecurity
Recognize why physical access to production areas, network cabinets, control systems, engineering stations, and maintenance ports is part of cybersecurity.
08
Recognize when something is not right
Learn to identify unusual system behavior, unexpected prompts, unknown devices, suspicious network activity, or changes that do not match normal operation.
09
Respond correctly under pressure
Know what to do when a cyber incident is suspected, including when to stop, what not to disconnect, who to contact, what information to preserve, and how to report the issue clearly.
10
Apply practical governance
Understand the operational practices that support long term OT security, including documentation, asset inventories, backups, access reviews, recovery procedures, supplier management, and clearly defined responsibilities.
Tailored content
Training tailored to your environment
Generic cybersecurity presentations often fail because employees do not see how the information relates to their daily work.
Our training can be adapted to your production environment, equipment, processes, and existing procedures. Examples can include:
PLC and HMI environments
CNC machines
Industrial robots
Engineering workstations
SCADA systems
Remote service connections
Production servers
Industrial networks
Maintenance laptops
USB based software updates
This makes the training easier to understand and more relevant to everyday operations.
Formats
Training formats
Training can be delivered in a format that fits your organization.
On site workshops
Interactive sessions at your facility, built around your own production environment, equipment and procedures.
Virtual sessions
Live online training for distributed teams and multiple sites, with the same content and discussion as on site.
E-learning
Self paced modules employees can complete at their own speed, around shift patterns and production schedules.
Outcomes
What participants should take away
After the training, employees should be able to:
Recognize common cyber threats
Understand how cyber incidents can affect production
Identify risky behavior
Handle USB devices and service laptops more safely
Use remote access more responsibly
Recognize suspicious activity
Know when and how to report an incident
Understand their role in protecting production
Business value
What your company gains
OT awareness training is not about turning employees into cybersecurity experts.
It is about reducing preventable incidents and creating a stronger first line of defense around your production environment. Benefits include:
Lower risk of human error
Earlier detection of suspicious activity
Better incident reporting
Improved security culture
Reduced exposure from contractors and remote access
Better preparation for customer and compliance requirements
Start with the risks that matter to your business
Every production environment is different. We can tailor the training to your equipment, workforce, existing security measures, and the risks most relevant to your operations.
Help your employees recognize cyber risks before they become production problems.