EU Machinery Regulation
Cybersecurity for machinery safety
Remote maintenance, control software and connected components can introduce attacks that affect a machine’s safe operation. We help manufacturers examine those paths and organise the cybersecurity analysis that supports their machinery safety work.
Open a maintenance session
- Interface
- Remote access
- Target
- Machine controller
- Decision
- For assessment
Software, control and physical effects
Follow the change into the machine's behaviour.
A vulnerability report describes a software issue. Machinery safety analysis also asks whether that issue can affect a safety-related function, given the design and operating conditions.
Architecture
Locate the interface, controller, software and affected function.
Risk and protection
Explain the attack conditions, physical consequence and protective measures.
Verification
Check the intended behaviour on the relevant product configuration.
Who is allowed to change the limit?
Request
Send a configuration request using a role without write permission.
Control to examine
Check the action and target resource before changing the value.
Expected result
Reject the request and keep the stored configuration unchanged.
Record the actual configuration, response and evidence after execution. Define the acceptance criteria with the machine manufacturer.
What Sytance supports
Maintain architecture, threats, risks, security requirements and verification evidence with the product. These records can support the cybersecurity sections of a machinery technical file.
Work defined with the machine manufacturer
The machine's safety assessment, applicable standards, testing and conformity route depend on its design and intended use. Agree those activities as part of the assessment scope.
Related technical knowledge
Understand the safety question behind the cyber risk.
The public knowledge pages explain product scope, software changes and the relationship between cybersecurity and machinery safety.
