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system would not deeply operate about his task which would increase the risk to same
catastrophical incident even occurs. For instance, it’s recommended to those authorized staffs
to maintain their industrial system periodically and to leave skillfully prepared reports as the
evidence they obtained their tasks for a real. Also, it’s so significant to take some
measurements about the entire state of the system and also document those findings as a clue
that situation got under control for that certain period of time. This is important for a reason that
the accident may happen somehow and when that occurred the staffs doing maintainace would
get protected from any legal responsibility because they would get a chance to show all they’ve
done and also prove that they did not make any sort of mistake within their work.

CASE 3: The human factor as a threat to safety and security at work

Many employees dealing with some machines within the industrial asset would not properly
handle those systems and intendingly or unintendingly cause some catastrophical accident
happens. So, many incidents being happened in an industry could be the consequence of the
human mistake and it’s so important to investigate which of the workers got present at their
workplace during the certain period of time.

So often, the reasons to those occurrences would be unskillfulness of staffs operating with
some machine and if the incident happens – the investigation would need to prove if anyone of
the staffs dealt in an inappropriate way.

CASE 4: The cyber attacks to a critical infrastructure

Finally, the reason to some critical infrastructure collapse could be the cybercrime or cyber
terrorism which would so severely affect the operation of the entire industrial asset. It’s clear
that these sorts of occurrences could threaten not only that infrastructure, but rather many
human lives. Also, if the industrial system stops – the entire country could suffer the
consequences. In case of such a catastrophical occurrence, it’s so significant to conduct the
skillful investigation with lots of forensic work which would prove the reasons of such a situation.

About The Author

Since Milica Djekic graduated at the Department of Control Engineering at
University of Belgrade, Serbia, she’s been an engineer with a passion for
cryptography, cyber security, and wireless systems. Milica is a researcher
from Subotica, Serbia. She also serves as a Reviewer at the Journal of
Computer Sciences and Applications and.

She writes for American and Asia-Pacific security magazines. She is a volunteer with the
American corner of Subotica as well as a lecturer with the local engineering society.

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