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The impact that cyber issues might have on the safety and resilience of railway systems has been studied for more than five years by industry specialists and government agencies. This paper presents some of the work done by Adelard in this area, ranging from an analysis of potential vulnerabilities in the ERTMS specifications through to a high-level cyber security risk assessment of a national ERTMS implementation and detailed analysis of particular ERTMS systems on behalf of the GB rail industry. The focus of the paper is on our overall methodology for security-informed safety and hazard analysis. Lessons learned will be presented but of course our detailed results remain proprietary or sensitive and cannot be published.
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We are grateful to our sponsors for their permission to publish this summary of our work over the last five years. We would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Richard Bloomfield and Ilir Gashi to our initial analysis of the ERTMS specifications.
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Bloomfield, R., Bendele, M., Bishop, P., Stroud, R., Tonks, S. (2016). The Risk Assessment of ERTMS-Based Railway Systems from a Cyber Security Perspective: Methodology and Lessons Learned. In: Lecomte, T., Pinger, R., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems. Modelling, Analysis, Verification, and Certification. RSSRail 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9707. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33951-1_1
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