Critical Infrastructure Security Micro-credential
  • Type Validation
  • Level Advanced
  • Time Months
  • Cost Paid
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Critical Infrastructure Security Micro-credential

Issued by Purdue University Global

This micro-credential prepares you for a leadership role in which you assess and mitigate infrastructure and supply chain risk, i.e., risk to critical inputs from outside their organization. These skills are critical to ensure the firm interacts with its environmental context in a way that optimizes inter-organizational performance.

  • Type Validation
  • Level Advanced
  • Time Months
  • Cost Paid
Additional Details

Skills

  • Critical Infrastructure Basics
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Supply Chain Security

Earning Criteria

  • IN554: Introduction to Critical Infrastructure Security. This course provides an introduction to definitions and core principles relevant to critical infrastructure and related security. Included are National Infrastructure Protection Plan; introduction to ICS, DCS, and SCADA; introduction to operational technology; cyber-physical systems security; operational processes technology security; actors and agents in critical infrastructures; and critical infrastructure vulnerability assessment.
  • IN562: Cyber Threat Intelligence. In this course, you will determine the benefits of threat intelligence within an organization. You will examine the intelligence cycle to include planning, collecting, processing and exploitation, and dissemination and feedback. Your intelligence findings will enable you to illustrate a threat actor's targets, motives, and attack behaviors and to formulate a cyber threat intelligence program to help an organization be more proactive with security situations.
  • IN563: Secure Supply Chain. Supply chains are increasingly complex, interconnected, and dependent on digitization and modern technologies, exposing them to unique cybersecurity risks and the need for new regulatory requirements. This course explores domestic and global supply chain evolution and how this evolution affects supply chain cybersecurity. You will analyze real-world supply chain security scenarios, evaluate threats, and recommend mitigation approaches.
  • IN564: Critical Infrastructure Sector Security. There are critical infrastructure sectors considered so vital to the U.S. that the destruction of assets, systems, and networks in these sectors would debilitate national economic security, cybersecurity, national public health and safety, or all potential combinations.
  • IN565: Critical Urban Infrastructure Security. This course looks at urban critical infrastructure and related security needs for critical assets, systems, and networks in cities and towns.