The Journey to Cyber-Physical Systems Security

As defined by Gartner®, cyber-physical systems (CPS) are “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world (including humans). When secure, they enable safe, real-time, reliable, resilient and adaptable performance.” The current state of CPS security reflects changes to traditional security approaches in protecting CPS. This reality has grown clearer and clearer over the past decade as the interconnectivity, variety, and prevalence of CPS in critical infrastructure environments have rapidly expanded.

As the threat landscape continues to grow and new attack vectors emerge, it is important to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to building a CPS security strategy. In this guide, we provide security leaders responsible for protecting their organization’s CPS environment amid these conditions with information on:

• How CPS is defined and what it encompasses 

• The current state of the CPS security landscape 

• The recommended journey to CPS security including challenges and strategies for overcoming these challenges