GIAC / SANS · Full exam outline
GICSP
Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional
Industrial/OT security4 domains · 12 subdomains
GIAC / SANS publishes exam objectives rather than percentage weights, so this outline lists the objective areas and the topics under each.
1
ICS Architecture and Components
1.1Reference models and network segmentation
1.2PLCs, RTUs, HMIs and historians
1.3Industrial protocols
2
OT Risk and Governance
2.1ICS risk assessment
2.2Standards such as IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82
2.3Safety and availability constraints
3
ICS Security Controls
3.1Access control and remote access
3.2Patching and configuration in OT
3.3Network monitoring for ICS
4
ICS Operations and Response
4.1Incident response in OT environments
4.2Backup and recovery
4.3Vendor and supply chain management
Weights are the certification body’s published values and are checked against each outline revision.