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Frédérique VALLÉE: Associate Professor of Mathematics - Doctor of Statistics - Expert in dependability of programmed systems - Associate Director of All4tec, Massy, France
INTRODUCTION
The safety of a system corresponds to the non-occurrence of events that could diminish or damage the integrity of the system and its environment throughout the duration of the system's activity, whether successful, degraded or failed. Security covers both random (danger) and deliberate (threat) events.
This article focuses on the application of computer security techniques to scientific and technical programmed systems.
Scientific and technical programmed systems mainly comprise :
on-board systems in cars, trains, airplanes, medical equipment, weapons systems... ;
control-command systems for industrial installations in the nuclear and chemical sectors... ;
telecommunication systems ;
scientific computing systems.
Before reading this article, it is recommended that you read the general concepts relating to security and risk management of IT systems described in the article
A table of acronyms is given at the end of the article.
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Websites
Federation of Intrusive Test Professionals (FPTI) http://www.fpti.pro/
French Information Systems Security Club (CLUSIF) http://www.clusif.asso.fr
Standards and norms
- Railway applications: signalling, telecommunication and processing systems – software for rail control and protection systems - EN 50128 - 10-11
- Sécurité fonctionnelle des systèmes électriques/électroniques/électroniques programmables relatifs à la sécurité - CEI 61508 - 04-10
- Sécurité fonctionnelle : systèmes instrumentés de sécurité pour le secteur des industries de transformation - CEI 61511 - 03-05 ...
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