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T0880: Loss of Safety

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Essential information

MITRE technique ID
T0880
Confidence
100/100
Revoked
No
Published
21/05/2020 19:43
Modified
27/03/2026 01:44
Author / Source
The MITRE Corporation

Description

Adversaries may compromise safety system functions designed to maintain safe operation of a process when unacceptable or dangerous conditions occur. Safety systems are often composed of the same elements as control systems but have the sole purpose of ensuring the process fails in a predetermined safe manner. Many unsafe conditions in process control happen too quickly for a human operator to react to. Speed is critical in correcting these conditions to limit serious impacts such as Loss of Control and Property Damage. Adversaries may target and disable safety system functions as a prerequisite to subsequent attack execution or to allow for future unsafe conditionals to go unchecked. Detection of a Loss of Safety by operators can result in the shutdown of a process due to strict policies regarding safety systems. This can cause a Loss of Productivity and Revenue and may meet the technical goals of adversaries seeking to cause process disruptions.

Kill chain phases

Kill chainPhase
mitre-ics-attack impact

Marking (TLP)

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