Groowe Groowe BETA / Newsroom
⏱ News is delayed by 15 minutes. Sign in for real-time access. Sign in

Civil Infrastructure Platform Achieves Significant Cybersecurity Milestone with IEC 62443 Compliance

prnewswire.com
TXN Texas Instruments is listed as a key member supporting the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP). The article's focus is on CIP's cybersecurity achievements, not on Texas Instruments' specific business or performance. INTC While not explicitly mentioned, Intel is a major player in semiconductors and could be indirectly impacted by advancements in industrial cybersecurity. However, the article does not mention Intel directly or its stock. NXPI NXP Semiconductors is a key player in the automotive and industrial sectors, and while not explicitly mentioned, advancements in industrial cybersecurity like those by CIP could be relevant. The article does not provide direct sentiment. MU Micron Technology, a memory chip manufacturer, is not directly mentioned. While the industrial infrastructure sector relies on memory, the article does not provide specific sentiment for Micron. NVDA NVIDIA, a leader in AI and GPUs, is not directly mentioned in the article. While industrial automation can leverage AI, the article's focus on cybersecurity compliance for infrastructure does not provide direct sentiment for NVIDIA. GOOGL Alphabet (Google) is not directly mentioned. While they are involved in cloud infrastructure and AI, the article's focus on industrial cybersecurity compliance for the Civil Infrastructure Platform does not offer specific sentiment. MSFT Microsoft is not directly mentioned. While they offer cloud services and solutions relevant to industrial sectors, the article's focus on the Civil Infrastructure Platform's cybersecurity milestone does not provide direct sentiment. IBM IBM is not directly mentioned. While they have a significant presence in industrial software and cybersecurity, the article's focus on the Civil Infrastructure Platform's compliance does not offer specific sentiment for IBM.

Civil Infrastructure Platform Achieves Significant Cybersecurity Milestone with IEC 62443 Compliance CIP becomes one of the first open source projects to achieve this level of compliance, providing a stronger security foundation for industrial and critical infrastructure systems

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), a collaborative, open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, today announced that it has achieved compliance with IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2. This milestone strengthens the security foundation available to manufacturers and operators building long-lived industrial and critical infrastructure systems. With this achievement, CIP became one of the first open source initiatives to achieve this level of IEC 62443 alignment, demonstrating that open collaboration can deliver enterprise-grade cybersecurity.

As industrial systems become more connected and cybersecurity requirements continue to evolve, manufacturers face growing pressure to demonstrate that security is addressed throughout both product development and operation. IEC 62443 provides an internationally recognized framework for cybersecurity in industrial automation and control systems. CIP's work addresses two important parts of that framework: IEC 62443-4-1, which defines secure product development lifecycle requirements, and IEC 62443-4-2, which defines technical security requirements for industrial components.

"Industrial and civil infrastructure systems can remain in operation for decades, making long-term security and maintainability fundamental requirements," said Urs Gleim, Chief Scientist at Siemens and Chair of the CIP Governing Board. "CIP was created to address those challenges collaboratively. This milestone gives manufacturers another way to build on shared, open source infrastructure while supporting the rigorous cybersecurity requirements their products must meet."

For organizations building on CIP, the work is intended to reduce the amount of foundational compliance activity that must be repeated for each individual product. CIP estimates that adopters can reduce their IEC 62443 compliance effort by up to 70% by building on the project's security processes, technical capabilities and reusable artifacts, while retaining responsibility for the requirements specific to their own products and deployments.

The achievement comes as CIP celebrates its 10th anniversary. Since its launch, the project has worked to provide a secure, reliable and maintainable open source software foundation for systems with long product lifecycles, bringing together organizations across the industrial and critical infrastructure ecosystem.

A comprehensive look at CIP's first decade and its ongoing work is available in the CIP blog. To learn more about CIP, contribute to the project or explore membership, visit the CIP website and GitLab community.

About the Civil Infrastructure Platform

The Civil Infrastructure Platform ("CIP") is a collaborative, open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation. The CIP project is focused on establishing an open source "base layer" of industrial grade software to enable the use and implementation of software building blocks in civil infrastructure projects across energy, transportation, smart city, manufacturing, healthcare, and communication infrastructure applications. CIP is supported by key members including Renesas Electronics, Siemens, Toshiba, Texas Instruments, Aronetics, CyberTrust, Hitachi, and MOXA. Visit https://cip-project.org/ to learn more.

About the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenChain, OpenSearch, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, Ray, RISC-V, SPDX and Zephyr, provide the foundation for global infrastructure. The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Media Contact

The Linux Foundation

[email protected]

SOURCE The Linux Foundation