SCADA Training for IT Teams in
Water & Wastewater Operations
19 – 23 October 2026
Sandton Centre
Johannesburg South Africa
Register Now! Limited Seats Available!
R24,999.00 Per Delegate
Course Introduction:
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems form the backbone of modern water and wastewater operations, enabling real-time monitoring, control, and optimization of treatment plants, pumping stations, and distribution networks. As utilities increasingly integrate operational technology (OT) with corporate IT environments, the role of IT teams has expanded beyond traditional infrastructure support to include cybersecurity, availability, data integration, and disaster recovery for critical control systems.
This 5-days SCADA training programme is designed specifically for IT professionals supporting water and wastewater utilities. The course provides practical knowledge on SCADA architecture, infrastructure hosting, secure network design, OT cybersecurity, data management, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational governance.
Participants will gain a clear understanding of how SCADA environments integrate with enterprise IT platforms while maintaining operational safety and reliability. The programme emphasizes real-world utility scenarios, best-practice frameworks, and hands-on exercises to ensure IT teams are equipped to securely design, operate, integrate, and support SCADA systems aligned with organizational cybersecurity, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and data integration strategies.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Understand SCADA architecture and how it integrates with enterprise IT in water and wastewater operations
• Clearly define IT and OT roles, responsibilities, and governance models
• Design and support secure SCADA infrastructure, including servers, virtualization, storage, and backups
• Implement OT network zoning, segmentation, firewalling, and secure remote access
• Apply cybersecurity best practices specific to SCADA and industrial control systems
• Manage SCADA assets, vulnerabilities, identities, and access controls
• Support historian systems and enable secure enterprise data integration for analytics and reporting
• Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions for critical SCADA services
• Execute backup, restore, failover, and incident response procedures
• Operate SCADA environments under formal IT governance, change management, and audit requirements
Who Should Attend:
This course is ideal for professionals involved in the design, operation, or support of SCADA and OT environments, including:
• IT Infrastructure Engineers and System Administrators
• Network Engineers and Telecommunications Specialists
• Cybersecurity and Information Security Officers
• Data and Analytics Teams supporting operational systems
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity personnel
• IT Managers and Technical Supervisors overseeing OT integration
• Enterprise Architects responsible for IT–OT alignment
• Support staff providing second- or third-line SCADA infrastructure support
Course Outline:
SCADA Overview, Architecture & Initial Installation
Morning
• SCADA fundamentals for water and wastewater
• SCADA architecture layers (field to enterprise)
• IT vs OT roles and responsibilities
• Plant and control-centre architectures
Afternoon
• Pre-installation planning and system requirements
• SCADA server installation (application + engineering workstation)
• Basic network connectivity setup
Practical
Deploy base SCADA environment
Verify server connectivity
SCADA Configuration & Core Infrastructure
• Tag creation and device connectivity (PLC/RTU)
• Alarm configuration and HMI basics
• User accounts and access permissions
• Historian setup and time synchronisation
• Backup configuration and validation
Practical
Configure tags, alarms and users
Perform first system backup
Network Integration & Secure Connectivity
• OT network zoning and segmentation
• Firewall and access control design
• Secure remote access for engineers/vendors
• Redundant plant connectivity
Practical
Network segmentation lab
Secure access configuration
SCADA Cybersecurity
• OT threats and risk management
• Asset inventory and vulnerability handling
• Security monitoring and incident response
• Identity and access management
Practical
Cyber-incident tabletop exercise
SCADA Data & Enterprise Integration
• Historian concepts
• Analytics and reporting
• Integration with ERP, GIS and asset systems
• Data governance
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
• Redundancy models
• Replication and failover
• RPO/RTO definition
• DR testing
Practical
Failover simulation
Operations, Governance & Final Assessment
• IT/OT support model
• Incident, problem and change management
• Documentation and vendor coordination
Capstone
End-to-end SCADA environment review
Group feedback and recommendations
End of the workshop
IN HOUSE AND ONLINE TRAINING
While both In-House and Online training can present with cost-effectiveness and time-efficacy, there are some very specific differences between in-house courses and those based online.
The demand for additional courses by individuals or groups of people is increasing. Still, it depends entirely on the preferences of a person what type of training he or she wants to receive. Online courses and in-house training carry some similarities but they are considered to exhibit some very pivotal differences too. Despite that, both types of learning can be really beneficial for attendees.
For Registration and other Training arrangements,
contact us on the detail below.
SOUTH AFRICA : +27 11 057 6001
WhatsApp +27 82 360 1372 / +27 79 574 0389
info@bmktraining.co.za / www.bmktraining.com
