Combining Safety and Security Analysis for Industrial Collaborative Automation Systems

In collaborative automation systems, providing both security and safety assessments are getting increasingly important. As IoT systems gain momentum in the industrial domain, experts stress their concerns about security and safety. Improperly or carelessly deployed and configured systems hide security threats, and even raise issues on safety, as their behavior can threaten human life. The cloud based back-ends are getting used for processing sensor data – on the other hand, legacy equipment, which may contain sensitive information, is made interoperable with broader infrastructure. Safety risks can be triggered by attacks on the backend and confidential information is at risks by attacks on legacy equipment.