Title: IEC TR 63069, Security Environments and Security-Risk Analysis

Author(s): Peter Bernard Ladkin

Publication Event: Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, York, UK

Publication Date: 2020-02-11

Resource URL: https://scsc.uk/r1182.pdf

Abstract:

In May 2019, the IEC published a guide to combining cybersecurity and safety for industrial automation and control systems (IACS), IEC TR 63069.I consider critically two main concepts in the guide: an overly-strong notion of “Security Environment” (SE), and an accompanying incomplete type of security-risk analysis called “threat-risk assessment 'security'” [sic]. A simple example from experience illustrates the weaknesses.