Interconnection between industrial safety and cybersecurity

Abstract

It is clear that the continuity of industrial production, which is the key driver of the economy, is a vital priority for our daily lives. It is extremely important that these automated and semiautomated industrial cyberphysical systems operate safely without risk to human life or compromising productivity. Critical infrastructure and critical manufacturing facilities are potentially subject to all types of attackers (state-sponsored cyber attackers and cyber criminals, terrorist groups, hacktivists) who, whether for political, economic, or ideological reasons, select the attacked establishment, thus