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Critical Infrastructure Cyber Defence

Learn frameworks and strategies to safeguard critical organisational infrastructure against evolving cyber threats and compliance requirements.

6 Weeks
Vinit Sinha

Instructor

Vinit Sinha

What you'll learn

Identify and categorise critical assets and interdependencies
Apply NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and IEC 62443 standards
Secure ICS/SCADA and operational technology (OT) environments
Design defence-in-depth architectures for critical systems
Conduct risk assessments aligned with regulatory requirements
Develop and test business continuity plans for infrastructure failures

Requirements

  • Understanding of network architecture and security fundamentals
  • Familiarity with enterprise IT environments
  • No prior OT/ICS experience required — content builds from basics

About this course

Critical infrastructure — from power grids to financial networks to hospital systems — represents the backbone of modern society. This course equips security professionals with the skills to identify vulnerabilities, apply industry-standard protection frameworks (ICS/SCADA, NIST CSF, ISO 27001), and design layered defences that keep essential services running even under attack. Real-world case studies from high-profile infrastructure incidents are woven throughout.

Course curriculum

24 lessons
  • Defining critical infrastructure sectors and interdependencies
  • Threat actors targeting infrastructure: nation-states, ransomware groups
  • High-profile case studies: Colonial Pipeline, Ukraine power grid
  • Regulatory and compliance landscape overview

Your instructor

Vinit Sinha

Vinit Sinha

Director — Cybersecurity (APAC), Mastercard

4.7 instructor rating

Vinit Sinha leads cybersecurity for Mastercard's APAC region, where he designed and runs the Cyber Risk Quantification programme and directs region-wide cyber crisis simulation exercises. He is Immediate Past President of ISACA New Delhi and an EC-Council Advisory Board member, with prior leadership roles at Pine Labs (Head of InfoSec, Cyber & Data Privacy), Wipro (Practice Head — Cybersecurity), and EXL (AVP Corporate Audit) spanning payment security, GRC, DevSecOps and information security. He holds OSCP, CSX-P, CDPSE and CCNA Cyber Ops certifications, and is an IIM Calcutta alumnus.