OT Cybersecurity Training

Train to Defend Critical Operations

Prepare your engineers and security teams to detect, contain and respond to attacks across your operational technology (OT) estate — where IT and OT meet and safety is on the line. On CybExer's NATO-awarded Cyber Range they train against realistic intrusions in a high-fidelity digital twin of your environment, and every action is scored by our Integrated Scoring and Awareness (ISA) system, so improvement is measured, not assumed.

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Training Built for Operational Technology Environments

Our training puts your teams into realistic OT attack scenarios, built around the systems, protocols and processes that keep your operations running, so they learn to defend what matters most, under pressure and without risk to production.

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Tailored to Your Environment

Exercises mapped to your plant, processes and protocols, from SCADA and PLCs to the wider Operational Technology estate, so every scenario reflects the systems, workflows and operational realities your team protects every day.

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Real-World Attack Scenarios

Scenarios based on real OT incidents, from ransomware crossing the IT/OT boundary to attacks on safety and process, all mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for ICS. Every intrusion is driven live by our Breach Simulation Agent and can be replayed on demand to demonstrate measurable improvement.

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Proven OT Expertise

Built on extensive experience securing critical infrastructure and industrial operations, from national power-grid, railway and airport exercises to defence, utilities and government. Every exercise reflects real operational challenges, ensuring training is practical, credible and directly relevant to your organisation.

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No Risk to Production

Practise safely on a high-fidelity digital twin of your environment, with the option to bring your own PLCs, HMIs and field devices into the loop. Build skills and confidence through realistic exercises without ever putting live production systems or operations at risk.

OT Cybersecurity Training That Mirrors the Real Fight

Defending Operational Technology is different from defending IT. Legacy controllers cannot always be patched, protocols like Modbus and DNP3 were never designed with security in mind, and taking a system offline to test it is rarely an option. Engineers and security analysts need to understand both worlds, and they need somewhere realistic to practise before an incident forces them to learn on the job. That is exactly what Operational Technology cybersecurity training on the CybExer Cyber Range delivers. Teams train inside a high-fidelity digital twin of their own environment, facing real attack techniques mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, all without any risk to live production.

 

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Tuned to Your Plant, Not a Generic Lab

No two industrial environments are alike, so no two of these exercises are either. Each scenario is built around the control systems you actually run — your SCADA topology, PLC and RTU makes, HMIs, and the Modbus, DNP3 or IEC 60870-5-104 traffic between them — and pitched to how your teams work today. A first-time plant crew starts with guided detection and safe response; an experienced OT/SOC team faces multi-stage intrusions that manipulate control logic and hide inside normal process noise. The difficulty is steered live as the exercise runs, so it stays demanding without tipping into guesswork.

The same design scales from a single control room to a multi-site operation, and every run is instrumented end to end. Instead of a subjective "that went well," you leave with a scored, evidence-based account of how the team detected, contained and recovered — where the response was sharp, where visibility or coordination broke down, and precisely what to harden before it matters. Each exercise becomes a measurable step up in capability, not a one-off event.

 

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Training Built Around the Operational Technology Attack Lifecycle

Each stage of a real OT incident calls for different skills. These modules take your teams from spotting the first signs of compromise through to full recovery, so they build confidence at every step and know exactly what to do when an attack reaches the plant floor.

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    Detect

    Learn to spot the early signals of a compromise in industrial control systems, such as unexpected commands on the bus, rogue devices and subtle changes in process behaviour, and raise the alarm before attackers reach safety-critical equipment.

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    Contain

    Practise isolating affected segments and stopping an attacker's movement without shutting down the whole plant. Teams rehearse the hard trade-offs between security and keeping physical processes running safely.

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    Recover

    Bring control systems back to a known-good state, verify the integrity of your processes and capture the lessons that harden your defences. Every exercise ends with a structured after-action review that turns the response into lasting capability.

Defend Critical Operations Before Attackers Strike

Give your engineers and security teams the skills to detect, contain and recover from attacks on operational technology, all in a high-fidelity digital twin of your plant, where they can train under pressure without any risk to live production.

Harden SCADA and ICS systems
Secure PLCs and field devices
Map threats to MITRE ATT&CK for ICS
Strengthen coordination between IT and OT teams
Rehearse OT incident response
Demonstrate NIS2 and IEC 62443 readiness

OT Cybersecurity Training for Every Critical Sector

OT cybersecurity training for teams across energy and power generation, water and wastewater, oil and gas, manufacturing, transportation and rail, the chemical industry, and critical-infrastructure operators.

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OT Attack Scenarios Your Teams Will Face

Your teams work incidents modelled on real OT threats: ransomware pivoting from IT into OT, manipulation of PLC logic and setpoints, rogue commands on Modbus and DNP3, HMI and false-data injection, and attacks that target safety-instrumented systems (SIS).

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Key Benefits

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Protect Safety and Uptime

An OT intrusion can stop production or endanger people; practised teams contain it without compromising safety.

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One Team Across IT and OT

Exercises build the shared language SOC, IT and engineering need in a real incident.

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Prove Readiness Under NIS2 & IEC 62443

Scored, recorded exercises give auditors evidence.

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Learn Without Downtime

Full-intensity attacks on the digital twin, zero disruption to the plant.

Practise Under Pressure in a Digital Twin of Your Plant

Reading about an attack is not the same as living through one. On the CybExer Cyber Range, your teams step into a faithful replica of their own OT environment — the same controllers, protocols and Purdue-model network segments they manage every day — and respond to realistic intrusions as they unfold. They isolate compromised zones, protect safety-instrumented systems (SIS) and restore control to a known-good state, learning exactly how their tools and decisions hold up when a real attack unfolds.

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Build Resilience Across Your OT Environment

Strengthen your team's ability to defend critical operations against real-world cyber attacks. Get in touch with our experts to discuss Operational Technology cybersecurity training built around your environment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about building Operational Technology cyber resilience with hands-on training on the CybExer Cyber Range.

See Every Move on Your Plant Network

Every exercise on the CybExer Cyber Range is fully instrumented, so you can see exactly how an attack unfolds across your OT environment and how your team responds. Trainers and managers get a clear, measurable picture of readiness that turns each scenario into evidence of progress.

 

  • See which controllers and segments are under attack in real time
  • Measure how quickly your team detects and contains each incident
  • Score performance and track improvement across repeated exercises
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