Five Security-Informed Safety Episodes
Videos, Instructor Pack, and Student Worksheet
SafeCPS is an educational resource that uses realistic case studies to help students understand how cyber security incidents can influence safety, resilience, and operational decision-making across critical sectors including water treatment, railways, maritime transport, manufacturing, and healthcare.
This episode explores how compromise of a trusted maintenance pathway can influence industrial process control within a municipal water treatment facility. Students examine how a cyber security incident can escalate into a physical process hazard and how independent safety functions help reduce risk.
This episode examines the relationship between cyber security patching and railway safety assurance. Students investigate how an emergency software update can unintentionally affect signalling behaviour and why cyber security and safety objectives must be considered together.
This episode demonstrates how compromised navigation information can influence operational decision-making without damaging equipment. Students explore GNSS spoofing, information integrity, and the importance of resilience and human oversight in maritime navigation.
This episode explores how disruption of supporting digital services can affect clinical operations while medical devices continue functioning normally. Students examine resilience, degraded operation, and the role of trustworthy information in maintaining patient safety.
This episode focuses on safe recovery following a ransomware incident in a smart manufacturing environment. Students analyse how loss of trusted operational information, production pressure, and recovery decisions can create safety risks even when safety systems remain functional.