Protecting Tallgrass Energy Cooperative's grid along the grid rail, drawn as a transmission line whose eight towers are the program's stations — threat and regulation, assets, IT/OT segmentation and electronic security perimeters, control center, substations and distributed energy, vendors, monitoring and response, and compliance; the grid's layers from corporate IT through a one-way data diode to the control center, substations and field devices, each with its fix such as named EMS logins, DNP3 Secure Authentication and no default passwords; and what changed after the regional storm: a synchronized backup control center, rehearsed manual switching, brokered vendor access and audit-ready NERC CIP evidence.

CY-SENIOR-108Senior Level · Energy & Utility Security

Energy & Utility Security Program — The Grid Rail

A senior-level program course that builds and runs the security program protecting a regional electric and gas utility's own grid, working the eight-station grid rail from sector threat and regulation through crown-jewel asset inventory, IT/OT segmentation, control-center and SCADA protection, substation and DER hardening, vendor remote access, monitoring and incident response, to compliance, metrics, and governance.

16 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Map the sector threat and regulatory landscape (NERC CIP, TSA, NIS2, DOE C2M2, state PUC) and assign program ownership.
Inventory and rate crown-jewel BES Cyber Systems and OT with a CIP-010 configuration baseline.
Segment IT from OT with monitored Electronic Security Perimeters, data diodes, jump hosts, and secure protocols.
Protect the control center, harden substations and DER, and manage vendor remote access and supply chain risk.

Price:৳10,000