Connecting Functional Safety and Security

The challenge of connecting functional safety and security is not a new phenomenon.

Despite their many common characteristics and the underlying possibility of compromised safety resulting from cyberattacks, designing and developing for cybersecurity generally demands a different focus to functional safety. It is an environment that changes much more quickly, for example, and the potential for active aggressors is alien to the traditional world of functional safety.

Importantly, the topics of functional safety and cybersecurity are global in their reach.  With this in mind, I was invited to address these issue by (India-based magazine) ETauto, presenting a webinar titled Connecting Functional SAFETY and SECURITY in Automotive.

The Webinar

Overview

To quote from the blurb:

This presentation will discuss how those differences might impact the nature of functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, versus cybersecurity guidelines and standards like SAE J3061 and ISO/SAE 21434.

It will reflect on how it impacts the very nature of security standards, and consider whether their objectives can ever be as rightly defined as their functional safety equivalents. And it will review how sound application development techniques are likely to be central to any future cybersecurity strategy, no matter how the standards evolve.

Now On Demand

This webinar is now available to watch on-demand, on the ETauto website.

Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank the team at ETauto for their welcome and support during the preparation and streaming of this webinar, in particular the host and moderator Sumantra Barooah, Consulting Editor of ETauto. I would also like to thank Mr Shinto Joseph, LDRA’s Director of South East Asia Operations for his contribution and local knowledge during the Q&A segment.