ABSTRACT
Cyber security is a growing challenge for all organizations. In the past two decades, organizations have developed a huge amount of infrastructures based on important Industrial Control Systems (ICS) for their businesses. A specific domain of these challenges comprises the industrial organizations that manage railway infrastructures, public utilities, nuclear plants, communication infrastructures and utilities.
The aim of the paper is developing a conceptual bridge between organizational research on safety and new research program on cyber security in industrial setting. Working on data provided by an ongoing project on cyber risk in ICS, the paper suggest a preliminary framework to face with relevant questions and reflections on how the organizational social construction of safety can be in some way a good proxy to understand the sociotechnical side of cyber risk in industrial sites.
