Copyright: 2025

Virginia Assignment Code: 8499

Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12

Duration: 36 weeks

Hours: 140

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: None

CTSO: TSA

Course Description:

This course introduces students to cybersecurity practices within automated and connected manufacturing environments. Students will explore how to secure industrial control systems (ICS), robotics, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies while managing digital risks to production, safety, and intellectual property. This course emphasizes risk assessment, incident response, and applying cybersecurity standards in real-world manufacturing scenarios. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/manufacturing/cybersecurity-in-manufacturing/