Training as a Certified OT Security Technical Expert TÜV® (COSTE)
In industrial operations, technicians and engineers in particular are increasingly required to make or prepare the right decisions regarding appropriate technical security measures and security technologies.
This requires deeper security knowledge and a good understanding - be it of threats, current attack campaigns as well as the use of technical protection measures.
Contents:
- Introduction
- OT Threat Landscape
- Procurement of a secure system
- IEC 62443 Risk Analysis
- OT Protocols
- Common wired and wireless OT protocols
- Understand OT protocols at a technical level
- Wireless protocols in OT environment
- Securing industrial protocols
- Network and protocol analysis with Wireshark
- Network-based attacks
- MAC spoofing
- Denial of Service attacks
- Network sniffing
- Protocol Spoofing
- Man in the Middle Attacks
- Improving OT Network Security
- Network Segmentation
- Application of firewalls in OT networks
- Application of security measures in OT
- Security requirements and their implementation
- User Management
- credential management
- Host Hardening - System Monitoring and Network Detection
- Anomaly and Threat Detection
- Remote Access
- Backup and Recovery
- OT Security Market Guide
- OT Security Trends
- Final Challenge
Learn where you want!
Course dates that are offered simultaneously at one of our venues and online take place in a
mixed learning setting. This means that online and face-to-face participants form a joint seminar group.
To get to the German training please click here.
Industrial component manufacturers, manufacturing industry, mechanical engineers, system integrators, plant operators, energy suppliers, operators of critical infrastructure, maintenance, production technicians, plant planners and plant technicians, plant electricians, operating personnel of machines, persons responsible for plant IT, future plant managers and production managers.
The admission requirements for the certification examination are
- completed training including examination as "Certified OT-Security Practitioner TÜV® (COSP)" or an equivalent course or relevant professional experience of at least 38 hours per week.
- proof of completion of the Certified OT Security Technical Expert TÜV® (COSTE) training course at TÜV AUSTRIA Academy or an equivalent course
- the application for the certification examination Certified OT Security Technical Expert TÜV® (COSTE)
The certification examination takes place on the last day of the seminar and is a
- written examination (single choice)
If you pass the certification exam and fulfill all admission requirements, you will receive the TÜV AUSTRIA personal certificate Certified OT Security Technical Expert TÜV® (COSTE), which is valid for three years.
Please also note the certification program. This can be found under Downloads.
To extend your certificate for a further three years, you must
- the application for re-certification
- Proof of subject-specific further training of at least 8 teaching units; alternatively a written examination.
(Further training courses attended within 2 years before and 6 months after expiry of the certification certificate are recognized). - Proof of practical experience of at least 2 years of regular, subject-specific activity; alternatively, an expert discussion.
(The practice must take place in the period between certification and recertification, although it does not have to be continuous).
must be submitted. The application and the evidence can be sent at the earliest 6 months before and at the latest 6 months after the expiry of the certificate.
You can find the appropriate specialist further training to maintain your certificate here.
Book courses
Time: 08:30 - 16:30 Save date
Location: TÜV AUSTRIA Online Campus, Online
Course No.: 25.113.491.01
Course fee: € 2.450,00 plus 20 % VAT
Date: 09.05.2025 Save date
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Location: TÜV AUSTRIA Online Campus, Online
Course No: 25.213.491.01
Exam and certification fee: € 750,00 plus 20 % VAT
Exam can be booked via the course
