Unit 2 — Security levels and protection profiles
12 minThe seven foundational requirements
FR1 to FR7 — what each asks for, and which of them a given zone is actually argued on.
By the end you can
- Name the seven foundational requirements and what each asks.
- Pick the requirement a given finding speaks to.
- Explain why a safety zone is not argued on data confidentiality.
The seven
Every requirement in the standard hangs off one of seven headings. They are the vocabulary an assessment is written in.
| Requirement | What it asks |
|---|---|
| FR1 — Identification and authentication control | Every human, device and software process on the control network is identified. |
| FR2 — Use control | Identified users and devices may only do what their role permits, and it is logged. |
| FR3 — System integrity | Control logic, firmware and process data are not altered without being noticed. |
| FR4 — Data confidentiality | Recipes, batch records and process data stay inside the zone that owns them. |
| FR5 — Restricted data flow | Zones are segmented and traffic crosses only through declared conduits. |
| FR6 — Timely response to events | The plant notices a security event and responds without losing the process. |
| FR7 — Resource availability | Control keeps running — availability outranks a clean IT containment. |
Not every requirement in every zone
A zone's profile is argued from the subset that matters there. Nobody assesses a safety instrumented system on data confidentiality; they assess it on use control, integrity and the availability of its protective function. The enterprise zone is the opposite: it is argued on identification and on restricting data flow, because its job is to stay out of the plant.