Standards Development

Scope

This document provides requirements and recommendations for protection against corruption for machinery, related products and partly completed machinery referred to in this document as ‘machinery’.

This document provides requirements and recommendations to prevent accidental and intentional (including malicious) corruption of machines resulting in hazardous situations.

This document applies to:

— hardware components, including interfaces to remote devices and control systems, that can transmit signals or data;

— software and data;

if they could influence the safety of the machinery.

NOTE 1 Topics can overlap with the domain of cybersecurity but are not necessarily identical in their coverage.

NOTE 2 This document does not describe functional safety requirements of control systems in machinery.

This document specifies requirements to related risks in all lifecycle steps.

Machinery interfaces to external systems and services are in the scope of this document. External systems and services are out of the scope of this document.

This document does not apply to machinery installed before the date of its publication.

This document specifies requirements related to protection against corruption related risks in all lifecycle steps such as:

— development;

— manufacturing;

— commissioning;

— operation;

— maintenance;

— decommissioning.