safety

Must Industry Choose Between Security or Efficiency?

Article from: Automation.com, November 2011

 

Automation.com ran two side-by-side articles in its Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) Update eNewsletter:

 

Really, Really, Really Cyber Secure

Automation & Control Getting iPhone App Enabled

 

The contrast between these two articles beautifully captures an issue the automation industry must resolve in the next few years.

 

Eric Byres questions "must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency that modern technologies offer if we want our utilities and factories to be secure?"

Control networks are too open to cyber attacks

Most automation specialists are shocked to find out how much traffic is on their production control networks. Find out how installing the latest technology and adopting tighter policies for securing production networks can help to protect the integrity of critical control, safety, and regulatory data and processes.

Safety and Security: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Article in:  ControlGlobal, April 2010

The relationship between safety and security is such that a weakness in security creates increased risk, which in turn creates a decrease in safety. As a result, safety and security are directly proportional, but both are inversely proportional to risk.

Safety and security in the world today

In the world today, we are relying more and more on the safety and security of software systems. The traditional view of safety-critical software is that it is concerned with avoiding logic bugs that could cause loss of life, whereas security concerns are about preventing unauthorized access and tampering. But are these two concerns really different?

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