The intersection of safety and cybersecurity

The need to interconnect safety and cybersecurity is becoming ever more apparent. With greater convergence, engineers must merge the knowledge from these two overlapping areas in order to keep the potential related risks at a minimum. As safety is becoming increasingly dependent on cybersecurity, experts in both disciplines must understand how these two areas overlap and interact with one another in order to ensure effective system safety; there is now an increasing necessity to bridge the gap between safety and cybersecurity practitioners.

A heightened understanding of this intersection is invaluable when it comes to mitigating risk and promoting cybersecurity best practices while also guarding against possible safety-related threats. Additionally, each discipline must be aware of the vulnerabilities that are created within the system when safety and cybersecurity intersect. Given this, it is imperative that the safety and cybersecurity...