Security-informed safety: integrating security within the safety demonstration of a smart device - 157
Creators
- 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)
Additional details
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)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 52075666
- Subject category
- S47: OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTER CODES; DESIGN; ENGINEERING; IMPLEMENTATION; MICROPROCESSORS; RADIATION MONITORS; RELAYS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SAFETY STANDARDS; SECURITY; TURBINES; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; MACHINERY; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; MONITORS; POWER SUPPLIES; STANDARDS; TURBOMACHINERY
Optional Information
- Notes
- 11 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US)