Cyber engineering (sometimes referred to as Cyber Security Engineering and Cyber Resiliency Engineering) involves the design, implementation, operation, maintenance, response, and improvement of information security measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and safety of systems and system security measures to assure the security of hardware, software, firmware, and network components used to store, process, transmit, actuate, and sense systems.
Cyber engineering includes the understanding of a broad spectrum of security risks and threats that need to be eliminated or mitigated, when creating, designing, operating, modifying, or evaluating systems using all types of digital technologies, consisting of hardware, firmware and software components or applications.
This includes, as an important focus, Operational Technology, Industrial Control Systems, Industrial Automation, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, and associated communications. It encompasses the engineering activities associated with protecting digital control and monitoring for the automation of plant such as electricity generation plants, electrical substations, water and wastewater pump stations and treatment plants, dams, oil and gas refineries, port operations, rail network coordination, road tunnel operations, hospitals, food production, and other critical infrastructure.
The Community of Practice has been established to facilitate knowledge sharing, networking, discussion of best practices, and collaboration on projects aimed at the advancement of the Cyber Engineering Area of Practice.