Articles Related To ISA 62443
Articles Related To ISA 62443
The four parts of IEC 62443-1-X deal with general concepts including
concepts and models and a glossary of terms and conditions. The four
parts in IEC 62443-2-X deal with policies and procedures including
patch management while IEC 62443-3-X has three parts dealing with
system level topics including the choosing of the correct SL (security
level). The two parts of IEC 62443-4-X are probably the most
interesting to companies like Analog Devices and our customers as
these relate to component suppliers, with one part covering the life
cycle requirements and the other the technical requirements.
A key concept within the IEC 62443 series is that of zones and
conduits. Put in simple language a zone contains nodes with similar
security requirements and a conduit is a link between zones.
A similarity with functional safety is that IEC 62443 nominates four SL
(security levels) which sound very similar to the four SIL from IEC
61508 (another clue to the links). However, there is no one to one
correspondence between SL and SIL. The definitions of the SL are
contained in IEC 62443-1-1 and are shown below.