GIAC
Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional
GICSP · Status not verified
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- Exam cost
- $999 USD (historical estimate)
- Questions · time · passing score
- 82 questions, 3 hours, multiple-choice, 71% passing score
- Prerequisites
- Practical work experience in IT, engineering, or cybersecurity related to industrial control systems. No formal prerequisites are listed, but experience with ICS environments is highly recommended.
- Estimated salary premium
- 7000–7000 USD (historical estimate)
- Renewal requirements
- 4-year cycle · 36 CPE/CEU credits per year
- Difficulty
- Not rated
Domains covered
- ** Industrial control system components
- purposes
- deployments
- significant drivers
- and constraints
- Control system attack surfaces
- methods
- and tools
- Control system approaches to system and network defense architectures and techniques
- Incident-response skills in a control system environment
- Governance models and resources for industrial cybersecurity professionals
- Hardening & Protecting Endpoints
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