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The new course, from the SANS Institute, follows an increase in cyber attacks aimed at delivering kinetic payloads.

SANS SEC562: CyberCity Hands-on Kinetic Cyber Range Exercise , a 6-day course, includes hands-on digital representation of a city and commonly found real-world systems used across a wide range of computers, networks, programmable logic controllers and underlying protocols that operate most of the physical infrastructure used by key UK utilities, oil and gas, military and industrial automation.

"There has been an assumption that cyber attacks are all about targeting banks and retailers for monetary gain, but for many years critical national infrastructure has been under constant attack without generating the headlines or media hype," explained Tim Medin, course co-author and certified SANS instructor. "The motivations of the attackers are not so clear cut anymore – we are seeing a type of asymmetric warfare where actors, including hacktavists, disgruntled employees and, in some cases, nation states that cannot mount a direct attack, instead aim to cause real-world damage without the spotlight of notoriety or risk of arrest."

For more information on the course, visit: www.sans.org/ics-london-2015/ or email training@sans.org.