The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), a collaborative, open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, announced that it has achieved compliance with IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2.
This milestone strengthens the security foundation available to manufacturers and operators building long-lived industrial and critical infrastructure systems. With this achievement, CIP became one of the first open source initiatives to achieve this level of IEC 62443 alignment, demonstrating that open collaboration can deliver enterprise-grade cybersecurity.
As industrial systems become more connected and cybersecurity requirements continue to evolve, manufacturers face growing pressure to demonstrate that security is addressed throughout both product development and operation. IEC 62443 provides an internationally recognized framework for cybersecurity in industrial automation and control systems. CIP’s work addresses two important parts of that framework: IEC 62443-4-1, which defines secure product development lifecycle requirements, and IEC 62443-4-2, which defines technical security requirements for industrial components.
For organizations building on CIP, the work is intended to reduce the amount of foundational compliance activity that must be repeated for each individual product. CIP estimates that adopters can reduce their IEC 62443 compliance effort by up to 70% by building on the project’s security processes, technical capabilities and reusable artifacts, while retaining responsibility for the requirements specific to their own products and deployments.
The achievement comes as CIP celebrates its 10th anniversary. Since its launch, the project has worked to provide a secure, reliable and maintainable open source software foundation for systems with long product lifecycles, bringing together organizations across the industrial and critical infrastructure ecosystem.
A comprehensive look at CIP’s first decade and its ongoing work is available in the CIP blog. To learn more about CIP, contribute to the project or explore membership, visit the CIP website and GitLab community.
Urs Gleim, Chief Scientist at Siemens and Chair of the CIP Governing Board
Industrial and civil infrastructure systems can remain in operation for decades, making long-term security and maintainability fundamental requirements. CIP was created to address those challenges collaboratively. This milestone gives manufacturers another way to build on shared, open source infrastructure while supporting the rigorous cybersecurity requirements their products must meet.
