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Enterprise Integration Standards for Information Technology (IT)
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The following are Key Enterprise Integration and Cybersecurity Standards for use by IT Specialists for design of Information Technology (IT) systems and infrastructure. These are characterized by sophisticated systems, networks, and infrastructure that have evolved rapidly (according to Moore's Law). IT systems and infrastructure are designed according to the following CIA priorities:
- Confidenciality
- Integrity
- Availability
It should be noted that CIA priorities are exactly the opposite of SAIC as implemented in ACS systems
This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to describe the most important commonly-encountered standards. For a more detailed list of Enterprise Integration standards, see The PERA User Guides for your industry (e.g., chemical process or mainufacturing industry) and Principal Role (e.g., Owner/Operator or Vendor). Standards in User Guides are also organized according to the Discipline (Professional Role) responsible for implementing that standard.
These Standards are presented alphabetically, according to the Standards body responsible for writing and maintaining these standards. They are not divided by Enterprise Phase as many are used at more than one phase of the Enterprise Life Cycle.
IT standards are identified and reconciled during the Master Planning or Conceptual Engineering Phase; however, IT standards are more consistent across industries, and are also less likely to disrupt engineering design, since they have little impact on physical facilities (except for power, air conditioning and cabling)
CEN CENELEC is the European Committee for Standardization, located in Brussels.
- CEN TC310 WG1 is the working group that deals with Enterprise Modelling for Computer Integrated Manufacturing within TC310, the technical committee for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies. TC310 has primarily focused on discrete manufacturing.
- CEN work is coordinated with ISO TC184/SC5/WG1 (see below) under the Vienna agreement.
US Department of Energy Cyber Security Strategy
- Press Release announcing
the release of the Draft of Cybersecurity Risk
Management Process (RMP) Guideline for Public Comment
ISA - The International Society of Automation
A full list of ISA Stanards Committees is available HERE
The most important standards are:"
- ISA-95 Enterprise to Control System Integration
- ISA-95 addresses the exchange of data between Control Systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). This presentation gives an introduction.
ISO - International
Standards Organization
- ISO TC184
SC5 WG1 Enterprise Modelling and Architecture
- Supported by NIST (US National Institute of Standards & Technology)
- Coordinated with CEN TC310 WG1 (see above) under
the "Brussels Agreement"
- ISO 15000 Electronic
Business eXtensible Markup Language, or ebXML
- ISO 15704 Enterprise Modelling and Architecture
Requirements for enterprise-referencing architecture and methodologies. This document includes and updates certain PERA concepts.
- ISO 15926 Defines
an Enterprise Life Cycle Data Exchange standard which is coordinated
with ISO 14224 in the Reference Domain, and ISO 18435 & 13374 in the
Execution Environment.
- ISO 27000 consists of the following 14 parts:
- ISO/IEC 27000 - Introduction and vocabulary.
- ISO/IEC 27001 – Foundation for an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
- ISO/IEC 27002 – Best practices for selecting and implementing security controls.
- ISO/IEC 27003 – Practical guidance on implementing ISO 27001 successfully.
- ISO/IEC 27004 – Methods to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of ISMS.
- ISO/IEC 27014 – Governance principles to align security with business objectives.
- ISO/IEC 27016 – Managing the economic aspects of information security investments.
- ISO/IEC 27017 – Security best practices for cloud computing environments.
- ISO/IEC 27018 – Protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the cloud.
- ISO/IEC 27032 – Cybersecurity guidance for securing networks and critical infrastructure
- ISO/IEC 27034-1 – Secure development practices for applications.
- ISO/IEC 27035-1 – A framework for managing cybersecurity incidents.
- ISO 55000 Asset Management Systems.
- ISO 55000 provides an overview of asset management and asset management systems
- ISO 55001 specifies requirements for an asset management system
- ISO 55003 defines sector-specific, asset-specific or activity-specific technical requirements for an asset management system
MESA - Manufacturing
Execution Systems Association.
MESA is a World-leading organization for industrial IT systems above Control
Systems and below Corporate IT, including Site Maintenance Management, Production
Scheduling and other site MES system. MESA develops standards and manages a
large set of development projects including OPC UA (see below).
MIMOSA - Machinery Information
Management Open Systems Alliance
MIMOSA is a non-profit industry association, focused on enabling solutions
leveraging supplier neutral, open standards, to establish an interoperable
industrial ecosystem for Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions. Standards
include:
- MIMOSA CCOM
provides a Conceptual Common Object Model and canonical XML representation
of that model, that addresses manufacturing, fleet, and facility environments
- Open O&M is an initiative
of multiple industry standards organizations to provide a harmonized set
of standards for the exchange of Operations and Maintenance data and the associated context.
- MIMOSA OSA-EAI
provides asset management-related information standards, and
- The Manufacturing and Facilities Joint Working Groups offer end users
a harmonized set of data exchange standards avoiding duplication of work.
NIST Computer Security Resource Center
CSRC is the Computer Security Division's Web site. It is used to encourage broad sharing of information security tools and practices, to provide a resource for information security standards and guidelines, and to identify and link key security Web resources to support the industry.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
is a set of voluntary guidelines designed to help government organizations assess and improve their ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cybersecurity risks for critical infrastructure sectors. It has also been adopted across various non-governmental industries. Note that although it attempts to address both ACS and IT systems,(in our opinion) the clauses that address ACS requirements are much less developed than those in IEC/ISA 62443 and should therefore be used primarily for US Government systems and for IT systems in US critical infrastructure.
- NIST 800-53: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations.
OAG Open Applications Group
is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process-based
XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration. OAG
projects include:
- Content work defining business processes, their messages and the data
dictionary.
- Technical work comprised of XML design, development, UML repository work,
and application architecture.
OMG Object Management Group
is an international, open membership, non-profit computer industry standards
consortium dedicated to setting vendor-neutral software standards, and enabling
distributed enterprise-wide interoperability. OMG standards include:
- UML Unified Modelling Language
An object-oriented graphical language standard
for expressing program design. Includes Class and Object diagrams, Structure
diagrams, and Use Case diagrams.
- MOF
Meta-Object Facility
Defines a standardized repository for meta-data such as definitions of data
types or UML models.
- XMI
XML Metadata Interchange
A format for interchange of meta-data such as transferring the model to
the next step in a design process.
- CORBA Common
Object Request Broker Architecture
A vendor-independant specification of a way for computer applications to
work together over networks. It includes an Interface Definition Language
(IDL), and the GIOP and IIOP protocols. CORBA provides a standard way for
applications in any language, on any operating system, or network to communicate
with applications in any other language, on any other operating system,
or network.
- CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel
This specification describes metadata interchange among data warehousing,
business intelligence, knowledge management and portal technologies.
- MDA Model Driven Architecture
An open, vendor-neutral approach to system development based on UML, XMI,
CWM and CORBA.
OPC Foundation
is a cooperative industry body that develops royalty-free electronic business
standards for trading partners within the Global Energy Industry. This includes
data acquisition and transport standards.
- Standards library of
electronic forms and EDI documents for the petroleum and pipeline industry
- OPC
UA is a platform-independant service-oriented architecture specification
that integrates all functionality from existing "classic" OPC
specifications. Its 19 parts cover topics including: Security Model, Address
Space Model, Services, Information Model, Mappings, Profiles, Data Access,
Alarms and Conditions, Programs, Historical Access, Discovery, Aggregates,
Architecture for Analyzers, PLCs, FDI, and Devices, as well as an ISA-95
Common Object Model.
PIDX International
is an industry body that develops royalty-free electronic business standards
for trading partners with the Global Energy Industry.
- Standards library of
electronic forms and EDI documents for the petroleum and pipeline industry
PIP -
Process Industry Practices
is an initiative of CII
the Construction Industry Institute, and the University of Texas at Austin.
PIP provides standards which are "harmonized" from engineering company standards
in multiple disciplines including:
Profibus and Profinet International
provides standards and testing for Profibus hardware and software including
the PROFIBUS Industrial Data Highway
Standard.
STEP STandard for Exchange
of Product Data
This standard is achieving wide international acceptance and isrequired on large
US government projects, however it has been largely superceded in process industries
by ISO 15926 .
XML EXtensible
Markup Language
- XML is the universal format for structured documents on the web.
- XML is a subset of SGML which was developed by IBM. XML was issued by the W3C
Consortium in 1998.
- It is has received rapid acceptance at all levels in the enterprise architecture for exchanging information between applications.
- It is also the basis for many related standards. including BPMN and B2MML
TIA / EIA Telecommunications Industry Association / Electronic Industries Association.
- The TIA/EIA 568
TIA/EIA 568 Commercial Building Telecommunication standard was jointly developed
by TIA and EIA.
- The ISO/IEC-11801
Generic Customer Premises Cabling standard is an international cabling standard,
based on the ANSI/TIA/EIA-568, that may be used for industrial control systems
and premises cabling.
- The TIA/EIA 568
TIA/EIA 568 structured cabling standards define how to design, build, and
manage a Structured Cabling System (SCS). An SCS has specific performance
characteristics at each hierarchical level. For example, a workgroup LAN has lower-performance
requirements than the building backbone network, which may, in turn, connect
to a high speed single or multimode fiber-optic network.
- Category 5 TIA/EIA 568A and 568B Configuration
is not an enterprise integration standard, but very handy if you need to make
an ethernet cable to connect something !
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