Control System Cyber Security
the mid-1960s , a number of groups , including the American Medical Association , were instrumental in establishing a new class of medical provider : the Physician Assistant ( PA ). From four initial U . S . Navy Hospital Corpsmen , there are approximately 140,000 PAs in the United States today ( National Commission , 2019 ). Typically working under the direction of a medical doctor , PAs are in great demand in physician offices , hospitals , outpatient clinics and other healthcare settings .
Based on the acute need for operating system cyber-security across the nation ’ s sixteen critical infrastructure sectors , there may be reason to evaluate the potential to create a new engineer extender responsible for control system security . An Engineer Assistant ( EA ) with training and certification necessary to advance control system security could be applied in diverse settings across sectors . In addition to physical asset security , such personnel would be acclimated to the cybersecurity of control systems . Organizations such as the American Society for Engineering Education ( ASEE ), the National Society of Professional Engineers ( NSPE ), the International Council on Systems Engineering ( INCOSE ), the International Society of Automation ( ISA ), and the Institute of Industrial Engineers ( IIE ), and other relevant groups might determine the efficacy of advancing this type of goal .
In any strategy to improve the workforce focused on OT cyber security , technical advances promise to permit cost effective learning experiences . The price of even modest control systems can range into hundreds of thousands of dollars . ICS emulators and modern software learning systems have the capacity to efficiently train large numbers of practitioners .
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