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Systems-Theoretic Likelihood and Severity Analysis for Safety and Security Co-engineering

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A number of methodologies and techniques have been proposed to integrate safety and security in risk assessment, but there is an ideological divide between component-centric and systems-theoretic approaches. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid method for Systems-Theoretic Likelihood and Severity Analysis (STLSA), which combines desirable characteristics from both schools of thought. Specifically, STLSA focuses on functional control actions in the system, including humans-in-the-loop, but incorporates semi-quantitative risk assessment based on existing industry practice. We demonstrate this new approach using the case study of train braking control.

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This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation (NRF), Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, under its National Cybersecurity R&D Programme (Award No. NRF2014NCR-NCR001-31) and administered by the National Cybersecurity R&D Directorate. It was also supported in part by the research grant for the Human-Centered Cyber-physical Systems Programme at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

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Temple, W.G., Wu, Y., Chen, B., Kalbarczyk, Z. (2017). Systems-Theoretic Likelihood and Severity Analysis for Safety and Security Co-engineering. In: Fantechi, A., Lecomte, T., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems. Modelling, Analysis, Verification, and Certification. RSSRail 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68499-4_4

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