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Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) Topic Area
Focus your study on this topic area with targeted practice questions. This topic area accounts for 12% of our GICSP practice set.
Industrial Protocols is one of 9 certification topic areas our Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) practice set is organised around. At 12% of our practice set, this area is important but should be balanced with higher-weighted areas in your study plan.
Our GICSP timed readiness assessment is 75 questions in 3 hours against a 71% readiness benchmark. Those figures and the topic weightings are ours, an independent study structure and not a description of the certification exam. Roughly 9 questions in an assessment come from Industrial Protocols.
Authentication
The process of verifying the identity of a user, device, or system before granting access to resources. Authentication t...
Single Sign-On (SSO)
An authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single set of credentials to access multiple applications a...
VPN (Virtual Private Network)
A technology that creates a secure, encrypted connection (tunnel) over a less secure network such as the internet, allow...
Modbus
The most widely deployed industrial control protocol, published by Modicon in 1979 and still ubiquitous in manufacturing...
OPC UA
OPC Unified Architecture, standardised as IEC 62541 — the modern, platform-independent successor to OPC Classic and the ...
PROFINET
An industrial Ethernet protocol governed by PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI), widely used in discrete manufacturin...
EtherNet/IP
An industrial Ethernet protocol managed by ODVA that carries the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) over standard TCP/IP, ...
Purdue Model
A reference architecture for industrial control systems that divides a plant into hierarchical levels — Level 0 field de...
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