The Assurance Case Working Group (ACWG) is pleased to announce the release of Version 1 of its guidance. 

The Assurance Case Guidance addresses ‘Challenges, Common Issues and Good Practice’ and comprises:

• a framework that introduces the scope and context of assurance cases (Part 1);
• topic papers , which each address a specific guidance topic that is perceived by the ACWG as containing weaknesses or poor practice, and where no or limited guidance currently exists (Part 2);
• supporting information including terminology, references and acknowledgements (Part 3). 

The guidance is available for free download at scsc.uk/scsc-159. Should you find anything that you would like to add or improve for the next version, please add comments at scsc.uk/f301

I'm pleased to announce that after 32 months of hard work and cross discipline/cross sector discussions, the IET has published the Code of Practice: Cyber Security and Safety. This work was supported by NCSC and is available for free download from the IET website.

SCSC is a partner of SafeComp 2021, which will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of York, 7th - 10th Sept 2021. The registration for this year's conference is now live. The conference is hybrid so you can join online or in-person (COVID-19 allowing). We hope to see lots of SCSC members in York (or online) for four days of workshops, keynotes, papers, exhibition and more. Student discounts are available.

Register here: https://safecomp2021.hosted.york.ac.uk/index.php/registration/

An Invitation to Submit a Paper to the new journal has been issued, see the Call for Papers.  Note that authors of papers published in the journal will be offered a year's free membership of the Safety-Critical Systems Club!

Members of the SCSC are invited to review a draft TR created by the ISO/IEC's JTG1/SC42/WG3 TR on AI and functional safety.

This invitation is strictly available to current members of the SCSC only and should not be distributed. All members are requested to download their own copy.

The deadline for comments to phil.williams@scsc.uk is 9th July 2021. Late submissions are unlikely to be accepted.

The invitation to review, along with instructions on conduct of the review and links to the source documents is available at scsc.uk/rp142.4 (accessible to logged in current members only)

Members of the SCSC are invited to provide comments on the extant versions of UK MOD's Defence Standard on Safety Management Requirements for Defence Systems (Def Stan 00-056 Part 1 Issue 7 and Part 2 Issue 5) which have entered their review cycle.

This invitation is strictly available to current members of the SCSC only and should not be distributed. All members are requested to download their own copy.

The deadline for comments to phil.williams@scsc.uk is 25th June 2021. Late submissions are unlikely to be accepted.

The invitation to review, along with instructions on conduct of the review and links to the source documents is available at scsc.uk/rp142.3 (accessible to logged in current members only)

Members of the SCSC are invited to review a draft document created by the IEC's Advisory Committee on Safety (ACOS) relating to Risk Engineering, together with the German National Committee input to the review where they propose a position that ACOS should take.

The document offers an insight into an important discussion on the definition and use of the term 'Risk' 

This invitation is strictly available to current members of the SCSC only and should not be distributed. All members are requested to download their own copy.

The deadline for comments to phil.williams@scsc.uk is 30th June 2021. Late submissions are unlikely to be accepted.

The invitation to review, along with instructions on conduct of the review and links to the source documents is available at scsc.uk/rp142.1 (accessible to logged in current members only)