
ICWOD Certification
This course provides a basic understanding of full-spectrum cyberspace operations, the complexities of the cyberspace environment, as well as planning, organizing, and integrating cyberspace operations. The course will consist of presentations and exercises that will teach you how to develop a cyber-operations design and bring it to fruition. At the conclusion of the course, you will have a fundamental understanding of how to analyze, plan for, and execute cyberspace operations.
What Students Will Learn
This course provides a basic understanding of full-spectrum cyberspace operations, the complexities of the cyberspace environment, as well as planning, organizing, and integrating cyberspace operations. The course will consist of presentations and exercises that will teach you how to develop a cyber-operations design and bring it to fruition. At the conclusion of the course, you will have a fundamental understanding of how to analyze, plan for, and execute cyberspace operations.
- Cyberspace operations and methodologies
- Integration of cyberspace capabilities
- The role of Information Assurance in cyberspace operations
- Training and developing the cyber workforce
- Designing cyber related organizations
Who Should Attend
- Anyone interested in the field of cyber warfare/cyber operations
- Anyone looking to expand a cyber-security career
- Military Commanders
- Information-Operations Officers
- Information Security/Assurance Professionals
- Cyber-Security Consultants
- Cyber Planners
- Military Members (J2, J3, J5, J6, J9)
- Security Analysts
- Network-Security Engineers
- Penetration Testers
- Auditors
- Government Officials
- Security Engineers
Prerequisites: none
Follow-On Course: CSFI-DCOE
Time Frame: 2 Days
Certification: CSFI-ICWOD
Course Outline
- Understanding the Cyberspace Environment and Design
- Cyberspace environment and its characteristics
- Developing a design approach
- Planning for cyberspace operations
- Cyberspace Operational Approachs
- Foundational approaches that utilize cyberspace capabilities to support organizational missions
- The pros and cons of the different approaches
- Note: This module sets the foundations for CSFI Cyberspace Operations Strategist and Planner (CCOSP) advanced course
- Cyberspace Operations
- Network Operations (NETOPS)
- Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO)
- Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO)
- Defense and Diversity of Depth network design
- Operational methodologies to conduct cyberpspace operations
- Cyberspace Integration
- Design a cyberspace operation and integrate it with a Joint Operations plan
- Practice the presented methodologies in a practical application exercise
- Building Cyber Warriors and Warrior Corps
- The warrior and warrior corps concept as applied to cyber organizations
- The challenges of training and developing a cyber workforce from senior leadership to the technical workforce
- Designing Cyber Related Commands
- Mission statements
- Essential tasks
- Organizational structures
- Tables of organizations
- Training and Readiness for Cyber Related Commands
- Mission Essential Tasks (METs)
- Developing the cyber workforce
- Plan your own training programs within your organization
- Final Exercise
- Students will be presented with a scenario from which all previous instruction topics and exercises will be used to develop and integrate a cyber plan
- The exercise will also include a brief Rehearsal of Concept (ROC) and Table Top Exercise (TTX) to exercise and evaluate the student's developed plan
ICWOD Videos
CSFI Training Testimonial by Benoit Poletti, INCERT GIE Director
Jennifer Napper, Major General (ret.), US Army on CSFI
Downloadable Documents
View TRADOC Pamphlet 5-525-500, US Army Commander’s Appreciation and Campaign Design, 28 Jan 2008
View ADRP 5-0, US Army The Operations Process, May 2012
View Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and Intrusion Kill Chains
View JP 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 Nov 2010
View JP 3-0, Joint Operations, 11 Aug 2011
View JP 3-08 Interorganizational Coordination During Joint Operations, 24 Jun 2011
View JP 3-12(R) Cyberspace Operations, 5 Feb 2013
View JP 3-13, Information Operations, 20 Nov 2014
View JP 3-16, Multinational Operations, 16 Jul 2013
View JP 5-0, Joint Operation Planning, 11 Aug 2011
View MCWP 5-1, Marine Corps Planning Process, 24 Aug 2010
View An evaluation Framework for National Cyber Security Strategies
View The Joint Force Commander’s Guide to Cyberspace Operations
View Build and Operate a Trusted DoDIN