Cybersecurity Monitoring, Event Management, and Incident Response in Intelligent Transportation Systems

About this Course

The Cybersecurity Monitoring, Event Management, and Incident Response in Intelligent Transportation Systems training course covers the most important activities to be performed in a strong defense system against cyberattacks to an ITS. After the recent “supply chain attack” on cybersecurity companies in the USA such as SolarWinds early in December 2020, the cyberspace and all it entails including ITS is no longer the same. The SolarWinds cybersecurity breach is perhaps the major one thus far and has demonstrated that no system, no matter how carefully designed, is secure. The scale, significance, and damage of this incident is huge and will likely grow as more details of the breach are discovered.

Although the SolarWinds breach affected only the confidentiality of data, it is just a matter of time before other security properties such as application related data integrity is also compromised by similar attacks. If data integrity related to any physical real-world functionality such as the ITS infrastructure is compromised this can lead to disastrous consequences in the industry. Cybersecurity requires resilience as well as strong defenses and delegates attending this training course will get a deep understanding of crucial steps to achieve such generic requirement in an ITS environment.

Course Objective

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

Understand the ITS environment and explain its architecture
List and explain various ITS Cybersecurity Threats and Vulnerabilities
Perform an ITS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and develop mitigation strategies
Develop an ITS monitoring and incident response plan
List and analyze the most important current and future practices of strong defenses
List and understand the most significant ITS and Cybersecurity Standards

This course will Highlight on:

The ITS Environment and Architecture
Role of Enterprises, IT, Infrastructure, Autonomous vehicles, Communications, and Data
ITS Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities, Risk Assessment and Mitigation
ITS information monitoring and Incident Response
Most significant ITS and Cybersecurity Standards
Current and Future Cybersecurity Practices

Course Methods

Participants to this training course will receive a thorough training using several techniques that include coverage of material, discussions, breakout exercises, videos, and tests. The hands-on breakout exercises will be performed in groups and will enable participant to apply the material to real world scenarios with active discussions with other members of the group. Pre-tests and post-tests will measure what was learned in this training course.

Organizational Impact

The organization will benefit from understanding the principles of cybersecurity of ITS systems with emphasis on monitoring, event management, and incident response and how these can be applied. In light of recent incidents, organizations want to apply the principles of cybersecurity to protect their assets and those of their stakeholders.

The participants on the training course will:

Enhance their analytical and problem-solving skills through participation in breakout exercises
Learn how to analyze the cybersecurity of the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) infrastructure
Be able to apply cybersecurity techniques to implement resilience and strong defenses
Learn how to perform cybersecurity risk assessments for their organization
Improve the cybersecurity of their organizations
Develop cybersecurity plans including those for monitoring, event management, and incident response
Organization will become adaptive and improve their cybersecurity while at the same time serve stakeholders and the public at the highest level

Personal Impact

The participants will gain or enhance their understanding and application of cybersecurity monitoring, event management and incident response by:

Understanding how attacks happen in an ITS environment
Identifying attack vectors in existing ITS architectures
Identifying threats and vulnerabilities in ITS
Understanding cybersecurity protection frameworks and designing cybersecurity controls
Developing various cybersecurity plans including information monitoring and incident response
Applying best practices for event management and incident response
Apply methods to perform cybersecurity risk assessment and mitigation
Recognize the need and benefits of standards
Prepare for the future cybersecurity attacks and breaches in ITS

Course Outline

DAY 1

Cybersecurity & The Intelligent Transportation (ITS) System Environment

How cyber-attacks happen
Industries affected
The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Environment
Role of Autonomous vehicles
ITS Architecture
New mobility platforms
A Need to Secure ITS

DAY 2

ITS models, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity Threats & Vulnerabilities

Overview of Cybersecurity
ITS Models: Operators
ITS systems and infrastructure
Communication systems, wired, wireless
Data management, sharing, and governance
Threats & vulnerabilities in ITS

DAY 3

ITS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Cybersecurity Risk assessment in ITS
Cybersecurity challenges
Approaches in ITS cybersecurity
Cybersecurity protection frameworks: NIST and others
Cybersecurity Controls

DAY 4

ITS Monitoring and Incident Response

Penetration Testing for ITS
Cybersecurity Monitoring
Event Management
Incident Response
Best practices for first responders

DAY 5

ITS & Cybersecurity Standards – Current and Future Practices

ITS & Cybersecurity Standards
Good Practices
Gap Analysis
Plan of action
Innovative approaches: AI, blockchain Certificates

On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance