Meeting: CIE Design Patterns Working Group

Meeting Description

This working group meeting will focus on reviewing and enhancing guidance for creating CyberInformed Engineering (CIE) design patterns that integrate engineered controls and the larger body of CIE principles into engineered architectures and technologies within oil and natural gas, advanced nuclear, power delivery, and other critical infrastructure systems. 

The effort aims to define criteria, decisions, and constraints that guide engineering design to ensure safety, reliability, and performance while under cyberattack conditions. The approach will be validated through testing and analysis and mapped with the Engineering Controls Database recently released by the Idaho National Laboratory’s CIE program (GitHub – idaholab/CIE_EC_Database: Cyber-Informed Engineering addresses how cyberattacks on engineered systems threaten physical safety and reliability beyond data loss. This database provides guidance on defining and applying engineered controls, explaining their distinction from information security measures and their integration into system design.).

Building on the database of over 62,000 examples of engineered controls across national critical sectors, this initiative seeks to identify recurring patterns that help organizations reduce digital risk. As stated, while engineered controls represent one of twelve CIE principles, incorporating insights from all principles will enable the creation of this comprehensive catalog of design patterns—a powerful tool for national resilience conversations. This workshop invites participants to engage in this Thursday discussion and review the current efforts toward defining this catalog. 

Key activities include:

• Reviewing existing design patterns and technologies across targeted energy sectors.
• Creating any new design patterns that embed engineered controls into system architectures to enforce safety and operational requirements despite digital risks.
• Linking guidance to opportunities identified in the Engineering Controls Database.

Course Details

Faculty: Virginia “Ginger” Wright & Benjamin Lampe
Meeting Duration: 4 HR