CyMOT: Our Approach

Our Approach

Our approach to developing a comprehensive learning platform for cybersecurity manufacturing began with establish a mechanism to identify the key roles and profiles needed to fill the demands of an industry in OT cybersecurity (based on MxD Hiring Guide). These job roles directly map to the Learning Plans of this platform and the skillsets required of these roles map to competencies achieved through education modules.

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How It Works

Our platform is designed to identify and train key cyber manufacturing roles. We take the skills and abilities identified in the MxD Hiring Guide, develop specialized training content build around a flexible competency based learning plan.

Job Taxonomy

MxD, in collaboration with industrial partners, developed a thorough collection of the domains, roles and competencies in cyber manufacturing.

Specialized Content

Utilizing UMBC Training Centers expertise in cybersecurity education, content is created to address the specific competencies common to cyber roles.

Competency Based Learning

Utilizing a competency based learning approach the CyMOT platform provided self-paced learning plans for developing role specific competencies.

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MxD's Hiring Guide

MxD’s Hiring Guide addresses a daunting challenge: America must build a new army to protect manufacturers’ intellectual property, factories, and products from cyberattackers that lurk in the shadows, and mutate as readily as any virus.

The Hiring Guide: Cybersecurity in Manufacturing is a playbook for building that urgently needed workforce. It describes 247 job roles; recommends how to train and upskill workers to handle these jobs; and breaks out detailed descriptions for three specific roles crucial to the future of cybersecurity.

The Hiring Guide, developed in partnership with ManpowerGroup, is an indispensable roadmap and must-read for manufacturing executives, HR departments, educators, and policy makers.

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UMBC

UMBC has outstanding, thriving educational programs in cybersecurity recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD)[1] and UMBC’s instructional staff includes current and former NSA employees. UMBC Training Centers is a premier provider of professional and technical training for individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies.

UMBC develop the initial curriculum specifically with the adult learner in mind, to create content that can support current workers and their employers as they increase their capabilities in cybersecurity for operational manufacturing technology.

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The Hiring Guide

In October 2020, MxD released an updated version of the Hiring Guide with a new, in-depth success profile an career pathway. It is available for free download.

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UMBC Training Centers

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a leader in cybersecurity education targeting adult learners who are looking to increase their skills.

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