Published June 2017 | Version v1
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Security-informed safety: integrating security within the safety demonstration of a smart device - 157

  • 1. City University of London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Adelard LLP 24 Waterside, 44-48 Wharf Road, London, N1 7UX (United Kingdom)

Description

Safety and security engineering have, over the years, developed their own regulations, standards, cultures, and practices. However, there's a growing realisation that security is closely connected to safety. Safety must be security-informed: if a safety-critical system isn't secure, it isn't safe. A safety demonstration is incomplete and unconvincing unless it considers security. In our work for government and industry, we have used the Claims, Arguments, Evidence (CAE) framework to analyse the impact of security on a safety justification or safety case and identified the significant changes needed to address security explicitly. This will impact the design and implementation process as well as the assurance and V and V approach. In this paper we discuss the impact of integrating security when developing a safety demonstration of a smart device. A smart device is an instrument, device or component that contains a microprocessor (and therefore contains both hardware and software) and is programmed to provide specialised capabilities, often measuring or controlling a process variable. Examples of smart devices include radiation monitors, relays, turbine governors, uninterruptible power supplies and heating ventilation, and air conditioning controllers. (authors)

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Publishing Information

Publisher
American Nuclear Society - ANS
Imprint Place
La Grange Park, IL (United States)
Imprint Pagination
11 p.

Conference

Title
10. International Conference on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies
Acronym
NPIC and HIMIT 2017
Dates
11-15 Jun 2017
Place
San Francisco, CA (United States)

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Notes
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