Security and Cybersecurity: challenges and features in the Railway Industry

Cybersecurity is growing in all its aspects. Citizens are constantly receiving messages and reminders about fraud awareness, culture and prevention; the media are reporting every week about fraud, incidents in companies, or sanctions related to data protection; and organised groups continue to grow and increase their specialisation. But there is another cybersecurity in the industrial world, the cybersecurity that talks about how to ensure that industrial processes and production chains remain operational, how to design secure infrastructures and transport, and how to operate them with certain guarantees that allow them to maintain the resilience of critical and interconnected infrastructures and services in our society. The railway sector is not an exception in its growth as a clean, safe and competitive transport, where huge opportunities and complex challenges are mixed, both technological and in terms of compliance with new regulations, while maintaining the focus on improving the safety of transport itself and of the people who use it. This requires rethinking how trains are designed and the impact generated by cybersecurity requirements in their manufacture, how multidisciplinary teams of engineers, maintainers and technologists should understand and relate to each other, how cybersecurity evolves and is integrated into testing, levels of compliance and control actions, and not forgetting how the train interacts with the infrastructure that runs around it and the new monitoring and incident response activities to keep operating and resilient critical services that move society in our day-to-day lives.

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