TRB Webinar: Effective Practices for the Protection of Highway Transportation Infrastructure from Cyber Incidents

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET that featured research from National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Web-Only Document 221: Protection of Transportation Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks: A Primer.

This webinar focused on fundamental strategic, management, and planning activities associated with highway transportation control systems’ cyber security. The presenters summarized information that is intended to narrow the gap between cybersecurity specialists and highway transportation operations managers. They provided context regarding highway transportation critical systems, security vulnerabilities of typical highway transportation control systems, and effective cyber security practices.

A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) was provided to attendees who registered and attended the webinar as an individual. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for instructions on receiving a copy of the recorded webinar.

Here are the slides from the presentations.


Webinar Presenters

• Dave Fletcher, GPC Inc.
• Ron Frazier, CASE, LLC
• Patricia Bye, Western Management & Consulting, LLC
• Yuko Nakanishi, Nakanishi Research & Consulting, LLC

Moderated by: Dave Fletcher, GPC Inc.


Webinar Outline

1. Overview of the NCHRP publication
2. What is cybersecurity and why it matters to highway transportation
3. Cyber security risk
4. Countermeasures
5. Cyber security training
6. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions. The Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) categorizes this webinar activity as relating to health, safety, and welfare including core technical.


Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify common cyber vulnerabilities of highway transportation infrastructure, including those pertaining to various operations systems used in their organizations
• Assess whether their Continuity of Government and Disaster Management Plans include cyber risks
• Recognize whether there are sufficient resources and training in place to monitor, identify intrusions, take effective countermeasures, and recover from serious cyber incidences
• Use the reference materials to develop more mature governance approaches

Registration Information

There is no fee for employees of TRB Sponsors or TRB Sustaining Affiliates who register using their work email address. In addition to employees of TRB sponsor organizations, the following are eligible to receive complimentary webinar registration:

• TRB and National Academies employees;
• Chairs of TRB standing committees, sections, or groups;
• CRP panel members who were involved with developing the report or project that is the subject of the webinar;
• Members of the media;
• Employees of tribal governments; and
• Members of Congress or their staff.

Other sites must pay $95 per site. View our pricing page for details.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.


Professional Development Hour Information

A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who register and attend the webinar as an individual. For groups, only the person that registers and attends the session will receive a PDH certificate.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

This webinar was developed in October 2016. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Certificates of Completion will be issued to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website: www.RCEP.net.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.