Understanding DiD and LOPA principles

To ensure the safety and security of ICS environments, it is essential to prioritize and diversify protection philosophies with a focus on well-proven principles. Ideally, deploying both DiD and LOPA are essential steps to take to achieve safety and cybersecurity goals. These strategies strive for the same end result of reducing risks by integrating various methods of protection and safeguarding levels. Deploying both DiD and LOPA allows for comprehensive protection of the system from both a design and operational level with multilayered methods that are tailored to fit various conditions. These strategies are highly complementary and work to reduce the consequence of potential events ensuring comprehensive protection of safety and the security of ICS environments.

Let’s now explore, in this section, the specifications of these strategies in detail.

The DiD strategy

Safeguarding industrial networks calls for a comprehensive defense...