Cybersecurity and Safety Risk Assessment for Connected Machines

Why cybersecurity is now your concern too

Connected machines and digital products make manufacturing more efficient, but also introduce cybersecurity risks. A cyberattack can interrupt operations, compromise safety, harm customers and damage trust. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) addresses cybersecurity across the lifecycle of products with digital elements, while the EU Machinery Regulation addresses machinery safety, including protection against corruption of safety-related control systems. Where cyber threats can affect machine safety, both risk assessments need to inform each other.

For whom?

• Product engineers and R&D managers

• OT managers and operations leads

• System integrators and embedded solutions providers

• Product managers responsible for compliance or lifecycle management

• SMEs developing or integrating connected machines and digital products

Key insights

After this day, you will:

• Understand how CRA product cybersecurity requirements and machinery safety obligations intersect, and where separate assessments are needed

• Recognise common vulnerabilities and cyber-related safety concerns in connected and embedded products

• Learn a structured approach to documenting cybersecurity risk assessment, selecting controls and recording residual risks

• Identify the evidence and formal documentation needed to support product conformity and ongoing lifecycle responsibilities

• Leave with practical priorities for improving product security and compliance readiness

• Receive a certificate of attendance

Programme

The morning provides an accessible overview of cybersecurity requirements for manufacturers and integrators. The afternoon turns regulatory principles into a guided, practical risk assessment, including the interfaces with machinery safety analysis.

Registration

Please bring your laptop. By the end of the workshop, you will have practised a repeatable risk assessment method and know how to organise the key documentation and decisions needed for secure, compliant connected products.

Flemish companies can take advantage of a subsidy from VLAIO for this course

This programme is part of Industriepartnershap in which 13 Flemish innovation partners offer an integrated service to stimulate growth and innovation in the Flemish industry in the 6 following themes: AI, Cybersecurity, Circularity, Digitisation, Climate & Energy and Industry 4.0. They do so under the leadership of Agoria and Sirris and with the support of Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen.

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