8th IET International System Safety Conference incorporating the Cyber Security Conference 2013

Technical scope

Areas of application

We welcome papers from diverse areas of application including:

• Aerospace
• Air traffic management
• Asset management
• Automotive
• Control and automation
• Defence
• Healthcare
• Maritime
• Nuclear industry
• Oil and gas installations
• Power industry
• Railway
• Road transport

Technical scope

Contributions are now invited on System Safety topics including:

• Competency and competency schemes
• Complex programmable electronic devices (e.g. ASICs, FPGAs)
• Corporate governance
• Defining measurable safety requirements
• Hazard identification
• Human factors
• Independent safety auditing
• Legal issues including corporate killing
• Risk assessment
• Safety and systems engineering
• Safety cases
• Safety and security
• Safety management
• Safety standards
• Software safety
• System safety assessment
• Scoping the safety contract for suppliers

New and improved for 2013! Call for Papers on the following Cyber Security topics:

• Adoption of security approaches
• Auditing security
• Crisis management
• Cyber security in transport systems; identifying the interdependencies and importance
• Holistic risk assessment; safety and security together
• Intelligence led threat assessment
• Implementing security
• Incident and accident reporting
• Maintaining levels of safety and security with less funds and staff
• Managing security
• Risk and operational management of transport infrastructure and systems
• Securing systems against adaptive persistent adversaries
• Securing systems, management involvement and governance
• Securing systems with long lifecycles
• Security guidance and emerging standards
• Security of intelligent buildings
• Supply chain threats and hazards
• System security assessment
• Taking a systems engineering approach to security and risk of systems
• The security eco-system; building in security to ensure resilience in transport systems
• The challenge of converging paradigms: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (CIA) and Safety, Reliability, Availability (SRA)
• Threat assessment

The IET Transport Sector is working with the organisers of the System Safety Conference to deliver something unique – a high quality publication entitled ‘Security and Risk in Transport Systems and Infrastructure (cyber and physical)’ to be launched following the 2013 conference.

This publication will appeal to all those with a technical interest in the field of cyber security in transport systems and infrastructure.

It will also be of interest to those in transport planning, system design and modelling. This new, special interest publication will contain, at a glance, the very best technical content distilled from the call for papers.

Case studies

We welcome case studies relating to any of the above that demonstrate applications of innovative techniques to solve real-world problems.

As part of the 2013 conference experience, delegates may participate in a high level roundtable event led by the IET Transport Sector on 15 October 2013.

Hear what previous attendees of the IET International System Safety Conference incorporating the Cyber Security Conference have to say!

‘A good event that I am glad I attended.  My knowledge base is broadened and I have made some very useful contacts. Many thanks.’

‘The conference was very well organised and ran smoothly; I enjoyed it and it did meet my expectations, especially in relation to the Cyber Security part which was the aspect I was most interested in.’