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PECB Certified ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer Course

Mindset Cyber, an Australian PECB Authorised Titanium Partner, sells the official PECB ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer Self-Study for A$849 + GST (A$933.90 inc. GST), with the exam voucher, two exam attempts, the certification fee, the first year of PECB certification maintenance, our study guide and learner hub. PECB ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer self-study for the engineers, managers and consultants who secure industrial automation and control systems: how to establish, run and improve an IACS security program on the ISA/IEC 62443 series. You receive the official PECB course materials, study at your own pace, and sit the exam by remote proctoring or on paper.

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The official PECB course materials on myPECB, studied at your own pace, without video lessons. Includes the PECB exam voucher, two exam attempts, the certification fee, the first year of PECB certification maintenance, 12 months of access, a Mindset Cyber study guide (PDF) and the Mindset Cyber learner hub, with questions to a PECB Certified Trainer and a members-only learner community. 3-hour exam · Second exam attempt included · 16 CPD credits

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✓ PECB Titanium Partner ✓ 100% Online PECB Self-Study ✓ Exam Voucher Included ✓ Second Exam Attempt Included ✓ 12 Months Access ✓ Mindset Cyber Study Guide Included ✓ Ask a PECB Certified Trainer✓ Members-Only Learner Community Last reviewed November 2026 by Clinton McKillop, PECB Certified Trainer

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Credential

PECB Certified ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer

Format

PECB Self-Study: the official PECB course materials, without video lessons, and a remote-proctored or paper exam

Typical effort

~30 to 40 hours of self-paced study

Exam

80 questions in 3 hours, open book, 70% to pass

Who Should Take This Course

  • Managers, engineers and consultants who implement or support IACS security programs
  • Professionals responsible for IACS security who want a deeper understanding of the ISA/IEC 62443 series
  • Security practitioners and risk managers applying industrial cybersecurity controls and assessing maturity
  • People moving into IACS or OT cybersecurity who want a complete method for designing, implementing and maintaining a security program

For an organisation-wide cybersecurity program, see the NIST Cybersecurity Lead Implementer. For a certifiable information security management system, see ISO 27001 Lead Implementer.

What you get

  • Video lessons: None: PECB Self-Study is the official course materials, without video lessons.
  • Course materials: The official PECB course materials on myPECB, which you can download.
  • The standard: Not included, and not needed for the exam, which is open book with the course materials. Buy the ISA/IEC 62443 standards separately if you want them for your work.
  • Pace: Self-paced, with 12 months of access. Typical study time: about 30 to 40 hours.
  • The exam: You book it yourself in myPECB with the included exam voucher. Booking, open-book rules and retakes: PECB exam guide.
  • Learner hub: Included: your six steps to your PECB certificate, private questions to a PECB Certified Trainer and a community only for people who bought a PECB course from Mindset Cyber. Details below.

Included with this course

After you buy: your Mindset Cyber learner hub

Your learner hub is included with your PECB course. A self-paced course gives you the material; the hub gives you the plan. It shows one next step at a time on the way from course to certificate, so a busy week never costs you your place.

Your six steps

  1. myPECB access and your study guide
  2. Pick the month you will sit
  3. One section at a time
  4. Practise at exam pace
  5. Two attempts included
  6. Your PECB certificate

How the learner hub works

The learner hub’s Home on a laptop, with the course page on a phone overlapping its lower right corner.

Questions while you study

Ask a PECB Certified Trainer. Answered within two days. Private, in writing, between you and the trainer.

Learners on your exam

A community of learners on the same exam. Only people who bought a PECB course from Mindset Cyber.

What else it does for you

  • Keeps your 12 months in view: a countdown on your course, help choosing your exam month and reminders before your exam
  • Gives you a plan: study days dated back from your exam date, a check against each exam domain and your study guide whenever you need it
  • Explains myPECB, booking, exam day and your certificate, with screenshots wherever there is a screen to follow
  • Keeps your record: badges as you progress and a CPD log for your hours and evidence (you still submit them in myPECB)
  • Tells you when the trainer answers or someone replies

This is written support for your course, not coaching or a live session.

Included with this course

Your Mindset Cyber study guide

The PECB course teaches the ISA/IEC 62443 series. This guide sits beside it and tells you what to decide, what to do and in what order, and what the exam tests, from your first login to your certificate.

  • Start right. Go through nine quick decisions in your first hour, such as which email to use for myPECB, which computer to sit the exam on, and whether you need to buy the ISA/IEC 62443 standards (not for the exam: it allows the course materials).
  • Keep to a plan. Pick a pace that fits your week, then fill in a planner that works back from your exam date.
  • Study for the exam, not just the course. A short routine for each course day, what each exam domain tests, and the exam traps: pairs of ideas that are easy to mix up in a multiple-choice question.
  • Find answers fast in the open-book exam. Build an exam index as you study, a page of pointers to where each topic sits in the course slides, so you know where to look when they open inside the exam app.
  • Know what to expect on exam day. Set up the PECB Exams app a week before, follow a time plan for 80 questions in 3 hours, and know what you may and may not have on your desk.
  • Apply for the right credential. See which level your experience supports, so you apply for the highest one you can, because PECB charges a fee to upgrade later.

A PDF for the ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer course that you can fill in on screen or print, with tick boxes and space for your own notes. Emailed to you right after your order, as a separate email.

Written by Mindset Cyber to go with the official PECB course. It is not PECB material.

The decisions page of the ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer study guide: nine choices to make before you start, each with a tick box Cover of the Mindset Cyber study guide for the PECB ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer course

Inside, in three parts

  1. Start here: how to use the guide, and your first hour.
  2. Tips and decisions: the nine decisions to make in your first hour, a study routine for each course day, how to work a question and pace yourself in the exam, and the exam traps for this course.
  3. Study guide: six steps from first login to certificate, each with a checklist:
    1. Get set up: check you have the right course
    2. Make your plan: your key dates and when to book the exam
    3. Learn the course:
      • Your exam index, showing where each topic sits in the course slides
      • What each exam domain tests
      • Domain 2, one course day at a time
      • The ISA/IEC 62443 series on one page, with security levels: what each one resists
      • The security programme the course builds
      • Key terms to know well
    4. Practise: the practice in your course, a timed mock built from its quizzes and a rating for each exam domain
    5. Sit the exam: set up the PECB Exams app a week before, and what to expect on exam day
    6. Get certified: apply in myPECB, then keep your credential current

Why this course

Why do industrial control systems need their own security program?

Industrial automation and control systems run plants, pipelines, grids and production lines, and an attack on them can stop operations, damage equipment or put people at risk. Office IT security does not carry straight across: availability and safety come first, many systems run around the clock on equipment that stays in service for years, and patches have to wait for a window in operations. The ISA/IEC 62443 series sets out how to secure these systems, and this course teaches you to implement it.

  • Apply ISA/IEC 62443 security levels, foundational requirements and maturity models to real systems.
  • Assess IACS risk, write the policies, and set up the roles and organisation an IACS security program needs.
  • Plan patching, supply chain security, monitoring, testing and incident response that keep operations running.

How self-study works

On-demand via myPECB

  1. Receive your official PECB course materials and exam voucher after checkout.
  2. Work through the four course days at your own pace, with practical examples, exercises and quizzes.
  3. Sit the exam by remote proctoring or on paper (a second attempt within 12 months is included if needed).

What you will learn

Key outcomes

  • Explain the concepts and principles behind an IACS security program built on the ISA/IEC 62443 series.
  • Interpret ISA/IEC 62443 requirements, recommendations and technical reports from an implementer’s point of view.
  • Manage threats with security controls, maturity assessment, asset and supply chain security, and patch planning.
  • Design and maintain an IACS security program: assess and treat risk, and define security roles and responsibilities.
  • Run security awareness and training, monitor IACS environments, test their security and respond to incidents.

Course structure

Four course days

  • Foundations of ISA/IEC 62443 and IACS security: key concepts, terms and technologies, IACS networks, and the purpose and scope of the series.
  • Security requirements, maturity models and the threat landscape: system security requirements, security levels, access control, supply chain management, audit and certification, and patching.
  • Establishing and managing an IACS security program: risk assessment, policy development and the IACS security organisation.
  • Training, incident response and sector-specific standards: training, monitoring, incident response, testing IACS security, and other relevant standards.

What to expect

Self-study benefits

  • Study on your own schedule with no fixed class times and no video sessions.
  • Learn from more than 400 pages of official PECB materials with practical examples, exercises and quizzes.
  • Covers the whole program, from security levels and risk assessment to patching, monitoring, testing and incident response.
  • Two exam attempts included, so you can study with confidence.

Examination

PECB Certified ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer exam

  • Format: 3 hours, 80 multiple-choice questions, open book, 70% to pass, in English, sat online by remote proctoring or on paper.
  • Domain 1: Fundamental principles and concepts of industrial automation and control systems (IACS).
  • Domain 2: Application of ISA/IEC 62443 standards for uptime, resilience, and critical infrastructure protection.

Certification

PECB ISA/IEC 62443 credentials

  • Certification and examination fees are included in the course price.
  • Official PECB training materials (400+ pages) with practical examples, exercises and quizzes.
  • 16 CPD credits under PECB's CPD Policy.
  • If you do not pass, a second attempt within 12 months is included.
  • Passing the exam with no experience lets you apply for the ISA/IEC 62443 Provisional Implementer credential. ISA/IEC 62443 Implementer needs two years of work experience, one of them in industrial automation and control management, and 200 hours of project activity; Lead Implementer needs five years, two of them in that field, and 300 hours; Senior Lead Implementer needs ten years, seven of them in that field, and 1,000 hours. Every level requires signing the PECB Code of Ethics.

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Price in your local currency

Mindset Cyber charges a fixed local price with no surprise conversion at checkout. In India this course is ₹56,999, in the United States US$589, in the United Kingdom £449 + VAT, and in the Eurozone €519. Select your region to set your checkout currency:

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What the PECB ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer Covers

The ISA/IEC 62443 series is the set of international standards for the security of industrial automation and control systems (IACS): the control systems, networks and devices that run physical processes in energy, water, manufacturing, transport and other industries. The PECB ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer credential is for the people who put it into practice, from the asset owner's security program to the requirements placed on integrators and product suppliers.

The course starts with the foundations: how IT and OT systems differ, IACS networks and protocols, and what each part of the series covers. It then works through system security requirements, security levels and maturity models, access control, supply chain management and patching, and how to establish an IACS security program, with risk assessment, policies and a security organisation. It finishes with training, monitoring, incident response, security testing and other standards used alongside ISA/IEC 62443.

The course is delivered as self-study: you work through the official PECB materials at your own pace and sit the exam by remote proctoring or on paper. Full credential details are on PECB's course page.

Security Levels and Foundational Requirements

ISA/IEC 62443-3-3 groups its system security requirements under seven foundational requirements (FRs). The course uses them, together with security levels, to decide how much protection each part of a system needs: a target security level (SL-T) for what the risk calls for, a capability level (SL-C) for what the system or its components can deliver when properly configured, and an achieved level (SL-A) for what the system really reaches.

  • FR 1 Identification and authentication control
  • FR 2 Use control
  • FR 3 System integrity
  • FR 4 Data confidentiality
  • FR 5 Restricted data flow
  • FR 6 Timely response to events
  • FR 7 Resource availability

Zones and conduits run through the course as well: grouping assets with the same security needs into zones, and controlling the communication paths between them.

ISA/IEC 62443 and Australia's Critical Infrastructure Rules

Under the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018, the responsible entities for many critical infrastructure assets keep a critical infrastructure risk management program (CIRMP). The program rules count interference with operational technology essential to an asset's functioning as a material risk, with a SCADA system as their example, along with remote access to operational control or monitoring systems.

The rules, as compiled on 10 June 2026, also set enhanced requirements, with grace periods, for electricity, gas, liquid fuel, water, freight and some other assets: among them, dealing with slow patching, legacy and unsupported systems, and lateral movement into critical systems, which the rules define to include operational technology.

For cyber and information security hazards, the rules require a program to comply with one of a list of frameworks, such as AS ISO/IEC 27001, the Essential Eight, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the AESCSF, or an equivalent framework. ISA/IEC 62443 is not on that list. It is the series written for the control systems themselves, and this course teaches you to apply it.

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Course FAQs

Answers to the most common questions about our PECB self-study courses.

Is this course PECB eLearning or PECB Self-Study?

It is PECB Self-Study: the official PECB course materials on myPECB, studied at your own pace, without video lessons. The price, A$849 + GST (A$933.90 inc. GST), includes the PECB exam voucher, two exam attempts, the certification fee, the first year of PECB certification maintenance, 12 months of access, a Mindset Cyber study guide (PDF) and the Mindset Cyber learner hub, with questions to a PECB Certified Trainer and a members-only learner community. What PECB eLearning and Self-Study each include.

What is the exam format?

The exam has 80 multiple-choice questions, runs for 3 hours, in English, and is sat online by remote proctoring or on paper. It covers two competency domains, and the second, applying the ISA/IEC 62443 standards, carries 66 of the 80 questions. It is open book: you may use the course materials. The pass mark is 70%. One retake is included within 12 months if you do not pass the first time. For booking, open-book rules and retakes, see our PECB exam guide.

Do I need an industrial or OT background?

PECB names a general knowledge of industrial automation and control systems (IACS) concepts and of ISA/IEC 62443 as the main requirement for the course. There are no formal prerequisites to sit the exam, and passing it with no experience lets you apply for the Provisional Implementer credential. If you come from IT security, the course starts with how IT and OT systems differ before it moves on to the standards.

Which parts of the ISA/IEC 62443 series does the course cover?

It teaches the series as a whole, what each part covers and how the parts fit together, and works with the parts an implementer uses most: the security program requirements for asset owners (ISA/IEC 62443-2-1) and for service providers (62443-2-4), security risk assessment for system design (62443-3-2), system security requirements and security levels (62443-3-3), and the secure product development and component requirements (62443-4-1 and 62443-4-2).

Do I need to buy the ISA/IEC 62443 standards?

Not for the exam. It is open book with the course materials, which teach what the exam tests. The standards are not included with the course: buy them separately if you want them as a reference for your work.

How is this different from the NIST Cybersecurity Lead Implementer?

The NIST Cybersecurity Lead Implementer builds an organisation-wide cybersecurity program on the NIST framework and publications. ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer focuses on industrial automation and control systems, the operational technology that runs physical processes, where availability and safety come first. If you look after both sides, they complement each other.

How long does the course take?

Plan on about 30 to 40 hours of reading and exercises, the equivalent of PECB's five-day course. Most people spread that over several weeks alongside work. You have 12 months of access.

What's in the Mindset Cyber study guide for this course?

Nine decisions for your first hour, a study routine for each course day, exam technique and the exam traps for this course, then six checklist steps from first login to certificate. For this course it also covers your exam index showing where each topic sits in the course slides, what each exam domain tests, domain 2 one course day at a time, the ISA/IEC 62443 series on one page with security levels (what each one resists), the security programme the course builds and key terms to know well.

What do I get after I buy the PECB ISA/IEC 62443 Lead Implementer course?

You get your myPECB access instructions, your Mindset Cyber study guide by email, and a link to your Mindset Cyber learner hub, which shows your six steps from course to certificate and always shows what to do next. Ask a PECB Certified Trainer. Answered within two days. How the learner hub works.

Can I ask a PECB Certified Trainer questions while I study?

Yes. In your Mindset Cyber learner hub, ask a PECB Certified Trainer private questions. Answered within two days. This is written support for your course, not coaching or a live session.

Is there a community of other learners on my course?

Yes. Your Mindset Cyber learner hub has a members-only community of learners on the same exam: only people who bought a PECB course from Mindset Cyber can join.

How do I access the course materials?

You will receive myPECB access instructions after purchase. Log in to download the full course manual and all study materials, and to schedule your remote-proctored exam.

Are exam attempts included?

Yes. Two remote-proctored exam attempts are included with your enrolment. If you do not pass on the first attempt, you can retake the exam within 12 months, and that second attempt is included. See what every PECB course price includes.

Is the training self-paced?

Yes. Self-study courses give you 24/7 access to the full course manual and materials via myPECB. Read at your own pace, around your schedule. There are no video sessions or fixed lesson timings.

Do I receive a certificate?

After passing the exam, PECB issues your professional credential provided you meet the certification requirements.

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