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CONTENTS
FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................... 9
0 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 11
0.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 11
0.2 Purpose and intended audience ............................................................................ 12
0.3 Usage within other parts of the IEC 62443 series .................................................. 12
1 Scope ............................................................................................................................. 14
2 Normative references ..................................................................................................... 14
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms, acronyms, and conventions ................................. 14
3.1 Terms and definitions ............................................................................................ 14
3.2 Abbreviated terms and acronyms .......................................................................... 20
3.3 Conventions .......................................................................................................... 22
4 Common control system security constraints .................................................................. 22
4.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 22
4.2 Support of essential functions ............................................................................... 23
4.3 Compensating countermeasures ........................................................................... 23
4.4 Least privilege ....................................................................................................... 24
5 FR 1 – Identification and authentication control .............................................................. 24
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5.3.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 24
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5.3.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 25
5.3.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 25
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5.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 26
5.4.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 26
5.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 27
5.5 SR 1.3 – Account management ............................................................................. 27
5.5.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 27
5.5.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 27
5.5.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 27
5.5.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 27
5.6 SR 1.4 – Identifier management ............................................................................ 28
5.6.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 28
5.6.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 28
5.6.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 28
5.6.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 28
5.7 SR 1.5 – Authenticator management ..................................................................... 28
5.7.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 28
5.7.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 28
5.7.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 29
5.7.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 29
5.8 SR 1.6 – Wireless access management ................................................................. 30
5.8.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 30
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5.8.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 30

5.8.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 30
5.8.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 30
5.9 SR 1.7 – Strength of password-based authentication ............................................. 30
5.9.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 30
5.9.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 30
5.9.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 31
5.9.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 31
5.10 SR 1.8 – Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates ............................................... 31
5.10.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 31
5.10.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 31
5.10.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 32
5.10.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 32
5.11 SR 1.9 – Strength of public key authentication ...................................................... 32
5.11.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 32
5.11.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 32
5.11.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 33
5.11.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 33
5.12 SR 1.10 – Authenticator feedback ......................................................................... 33
5.12.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 33
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5.13 SR 1.11 – Unsuccessful login attempts .................................................................. 34
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5.14 SR 1.12 – System use notification ......................................................................... 34
5.14.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 34
5.14.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 34
5.14.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 35
5.14.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 35
5.15 SR 1.13 – Access via untrusted networks .............................................................. 35
5.15.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 35
5.15.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 35
5.15.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 35
5.15.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 35
6 FR 2 – Use control ......................................................................................................... 36
6.1 Purpose and SL-C(UC) descriptions ...................................................................... 36
6.2 Rationale ............................................................................................................... 36
6.3 SR 2.1 – Authorization enforcement ...................................................................... 36
6.3.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 36
6.3.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 36
6.3.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 37
6.3.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 37
6.4 SR 2.2 – Wireless use control ............................................................................... 37
6.4.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 37
6.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 38
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6.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 38
6.5 SR 2.3 – Use control for portable and mobile devices ............................................ 38
6.5.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 38
6.5.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 38
6.5.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 39
6.5.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 39
6.6 SR 2.4 – Mobile code ............................................................................................ 39
6.6.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 39
6.6.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 39
6.6.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 39
6.6.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 39
6.7 SR 2.5 – Session lock ........................................................................................... 40
6.7.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 40
6.7.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 40
6.7.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 40
6.7.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 40
6.8 SR 2.6 – Remote session termination .................................................................... 40
6.8.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 40
6.8.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 40
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6.9.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 41
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6.10.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 41
6.10.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 41
6.10.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 42
6.10.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 42
6.11 SR 2.9 – Audit storage capacity............................................................................. 42
6.11.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 42
6.11.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 42
6.11.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 42
6.11.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 43
6.12 SR 2.10 – Response to audit processing failures ................................................... 43
6.12.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 43
6.12.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 43
6.12.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 43
6.12.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 43
6.13 SR 2.11 – Timestamps .......................................................................................... 43
6.13.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 43
6.13.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 43
6.13.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 44
6.13.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 44
6.14 SR 2.12 – Non-repudiation .................................................................................... 44
6.14.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 44
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6.14.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 44

6.14.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 44
6.14.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 44
7 FR 3 – System integrity .................................................................................................. 45
7.1 Purpose and SL-C(SI) descriptions ........................................................................ 45
7.2 Rationale ............................................................................................................... 45
7.3 SR 3.1 – Communication integrity.......................................................................... 45
7.3.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 45
7.3.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 45
7.3.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 46
7.3.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 46
7.4 SR 3.2 – Malicious code protection ....................................................................... 46
7.4.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 46
7.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 46
7.4.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 47
7.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 47
7.5 SR 3.3 – Security functionality verification ............................................................. 47
7.5.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 47
7.5.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 47
7.5.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 48
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7.6.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 48
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7.7.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 49
7.7.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 49
7.7.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 49
7.8 SR 3.6 – Deterministic output ................................................................................ 50
7.8.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 50
7.8.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 50
7.8.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 50
7.8.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 50
7.9 SR 3.7 – Error handling ......................................................................................... 50
7.9.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 50
7.9.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 50
7.9.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 50
7.9.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 51
7.10 SR 3.8 – Session integrity ..................................................................................... 51
7.10.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 51
7.10.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 51
7.10.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 51
7.10.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 51
7.11 SR 3.9 – Protection of audit information ................................................................ 52
7.11.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 52
7.11.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 52
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7.11.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 52
8 FR 4 – Data confidentiality ............................................................................................. 52
8.1 Purpose and SL-C(DC) descriptions ...................................................................... 52
8.2 Rationale ............................................................................................................... 52
8.3 SR 4.1 – Information confidentiality ....................................................................... 53
8.3.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 53
8.3.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 53
8.3.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 53
8.3.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 53
8.4 SR 4.2 – Information persistence ........................................................................... 54
8.4.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 54
8.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 54
8.4.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 54
8.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 54
8.5 SR 4.3 – Use of cryptography ................................................................................ 54
8.5.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 54
8.5.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 55
8.5.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 55
8.5.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 55
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9.4 SR 5.2 – Zone boundary protection ....................................................................... 57
9.4.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 57
9.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 57
9.4.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 57
9.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 58
9.5 SR 5.3 – General purpose person-to-person communication restrictions ............... 58
9.5.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 58
9.5.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 58
9.5.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 58
9.5.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 59
9.6 SR 5.4 – Application partitioning............................................................................ 59
9.6.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 59
9.6.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 59
9.6.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 59
9.6.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 59
10 FR 6 – Timely response to events .................................................................................. 59
10.1 Purpose and SL-C(TRE) descriptions .................................................................... 59
10.2 Rationale ............................................................................................................... 60
10.3 SR 6.1 – Audit log accessibility ............................................................................. 60
10.3.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 60
10.3.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 60
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10.3.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 60
10.4 SR 6.2 – Continuous monitoring ............................................................................ 60
10.4.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 60
10.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 60
10.4.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 61
10.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 61
11 FR 7 – Resource availability ........................................................................................... 61
11.1 Purpose and SL-C(RA) descriptions ...................................................................... 61
11.2 Rationale ............................................................................................................... 61
11.3 SR 7.1 – Denial of service protection ..................................................................... 62
11.3.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 62
11.3.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 62
11.3.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 62
11.3.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 62
11.4 SR 7.2 – Resource management ........................................................................... 62
11.4.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 62
11.4.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 62
11.4.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 62
11.4.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 63
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11.5.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 63
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11.6.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 64
11.6.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 64
11.7 SR 7.5 – Emergency power ................................................................................... 64
11.7.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 64
11.7.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 64
11.7.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 64
11.7.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 64
11.8 SR 7.6 – Network and security configuration settings ............................................ 64
11.8.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 64
11.8.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 64
11.8.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 65
11.8.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 65
11.9 SR 7.7 – Least functionality ................................................................................... 65
11.9.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 65
11.9.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 65
11.9.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 65
11.9.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 65
11.10 SR 7.8 – Control system component inventory ...................................................... 66
11.10.1 Requirement .............................................................................................. 66
11.10.2 Rationale and supplemental guidance ....................................................... 66
11.10.3 Requirement enhancements ...................................................................... 66
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11.10.4 Security levels ........................................................................................... 66

Annex A (informative) Discussion of the SL vector ............................................................... 67
Annex B (informative) Mapping of SRs and REs to FR SL levels 1-4 .................................... 75
Bibliography .......................................................................................................................... 79

Figure 1 – Structure of the IEC 62443 series ........................................................................ 13

Figure A.1 – High-level process-industry example showing zones and conduits .................... 69
Figure A.2 – High-level manufacturing example showing zones and conduits ........................ 70
Figure A.3 – Schematic of correlation of the use of different SL types ................................... 71

Table B.1 – Mapping of SRs and REs to FR SL levels 1-4 (1 of 4) ........................................ 75

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0 Introduction

0.1 Overview
NOTE 1 This standard is part of series of standards that addresses the issue of security for industrial automation
and control systems (IACS). It has been developed by working group 4, task group 2 of the IEC99 committee in
cooperation with IEC TC65/WG10. This document prescribes the security requirements for control systems related
to the seven foundational requirements defined in IEC 62443‑1‑1 and assigns system security levels (SLs) to the
system under consideration (SuC).

NOTE 2 The format of this standard follows the ISO/IEC requirements discussed in ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2
[11]. 1 These directives specify the format of the standard as well as the use of terms like “shall”, “should”, and
“may”. The requirements specified in normative clauses use the conventions discussed in Appendix H of the
ISO/IEC Directives.

Industrial automation and control system (IACS) organizations increasingly use commercial-
off-the-shelf (COTS) networked devices that are inexpensive, efficient and highly automated.
Control systems are also increasingly interconnected with non-IACS networks for valid
business reasons. These devices, open networking technologies and increased connectivity
provide an increased opportunity for cyber attack against control system hardware and
software. That weakness may lead to health, safety and environmental (HSE), financial and/or
reputational consequences in deployed control systems.

Organizations deploying business information technology (IT) cyber security solutions to

address IACS security may not fully comprehend the results of this decision. While many
business IT applications and security solutions can be applied to IACS, they need to be
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applied in an appropriate way to eliminate inadvertent consequences. For this reason, the
approach used to define system requirements needs to be based on a combination of

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functional requirements and risk assessment, often including an awareness of operational
issues as well.

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not have the potential to cause loss of essential services and
functions, including emergency procedures. (IT security measures, as often deployed, do
have this potential.) IACS security goals focus on control system availability, plant protection,
plant operations (even in a degraded IECmode)
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goals often do not place the same emphasis on these factors; they may be more concerned
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with protecting information rather than physical assets. These different goals need to be
clearly stated as security objectives regardless of the degree of plant integration achieved. A
key step in risk assessment, as required by IEC 62443‑2‑1 2, should be the identification of
which services and functions are truly essential for operations. (For example, in some
facilities engineering support may be determined to be a non-essential service or function.) In
some cases, it may be acceptable for a security action to cause temporary loss of a non-
essential service or function, unlike an essential service or function that should not be
adversely affected.

This standard assumes that a security program has been established and is being operated in
accordance with IEC 62443‑2‑1. Furthermore, it is assumed that patch management is
implemented consistently with the recommendations detailed in IEC/TR 62443‑2‑3 [5]
utilizing the appropriate control system requirements and requirement enhancements as
described in this standard. In addition, IEC 62443‑3‑2 [8] describes how a project defines
risk-based security levels (SLs) which then are used to select products with the appropriate
technical security capabilities as detailed in this standard. Key input to this standard included
ISO/IEC 27002 [15] and NIST SP800-53, rev 3 [24] (see Clause 2 and the Bibliography for a
more complete listing of source material).

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1 Numbers in square brackets refer to the Bibliography.
2 Many documents in the IEC 62443 series are currently under review or in development.
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The primary goal of the IEC 62443 series is to provide a flexible framework that facilitates
addressing current and future vulnerabilities in IACS and applying necessary mitigations in a
systematic, defensible manner. It is important to understand that the intention of the
IEC 62443 series is to build extensions to enterprise security that adapt the requirements for
business IT systems and combines them with the unique requirements for strong availability
needed by IACS.

0.2 Purpose and intended audience

The IACS community audience for this standard is intended to be asset owners, system
integrators, product suppliers, service providers and, where appropriate, compliance
authorities. Compliance authorities include government agencies and regulators with the legal
authority to perform audits to verify compliance with governing laws and regulations.

System integrators, product suppliers and service providers will use this standard to evaluate
whether their products and services can provide the functional security capability to meet the
asset owner’s target security level (SL-T) requirements. As with the assignment of SL-Ts, the
applicability of individual control system requirements (SRs) and requirement enhancements
(REs) needs to be based on an asset owner’s security policies, procedures and risk
assessment in the context of their specific site. Note that some SRs contain specific
conditions for permissible exceptions, such as where meeting the SR will violate fundamental
operational requirements of a control system (which may trigger the need for compensating
countermeasures).

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When designing a control system to meet the set of SRs associated with specific SL-Ts, it is
not necessary that every component of the proposed control system support every system

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requirement to the level mandated in this standard. Compensating countermeasures can be
employed to provide the needed functionality to other subsystems, such that the overall SL-T
requirements are met at the control system level. Inclusion of compensating countermeasures
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during the design phase should be accompanied by comprehensive documentation so that the
resulting achieved control system SL, SL-A(control system), fully reflects the intended security
capabilities inherent in the design. Similarly, during certification testing and/or post-
installation audits, compensating countermeasures can be utilized and documented in order to
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There is insufficient detail in this standard to design and build an integrated security
architecture. That requires additional system-level analysis and development of derived
requirements that are the subject of other standards in the IEC 62443 series (see 0). Note
that providing specifications detailed enough to build a security architecture are not the goal
of this standard. The goal is to define a common, minimum set of requirements to reach
progressively more stringent security levels. The actual design of an architecture that meets
these requirements is the job of system integrators and product suppliers. In this task, they
retain the freedom to make individual choices, thus supporting competition and innovation.
Thus this standard strictly adheres to specifying functional requirements, and does not
address how these functional requirements should be met.

0.3 Usage within other parts of the IEC 62443 series

Figure 1 shows a graphical depiction of the IEC 62443 series when this standard was written.

IEC 62443‑3‑2 uses the SRs and REs as a checklist. After the system under consideration
(SuC) has been described in terms of zones and conduits, and individual target SLs have
been assigned to these zones and conduits, the SRs and REs in this standard, as well as
their mapping to capability SLs (SL-Cs), are used to compile a list of requirements which the
control system design needs to meet. A given control system design can then be checked for
completeness, thereby providing the SL-As.