Defending from escalation

Escalation prevention

The guidelines in this section enable you to enhance the system safety by Constraining the situation to always remain in the design scope .

This defense imposes requirements for setting the rules about the acceptable operators activity.

According to the Protection model, escalation is the result of getting out of the design scope.

  To enforce staying in the design scope, the design should restrict and control the acceptable events when in

  The only events that may be received when in exceptional situations are those required to resume routine operation and to keep the system alive.

  In case of emergency, the design should check that the system remains in the design scope. Otherwise, the system should use a safety net, which implies operating in emergency mode. (Zonnenshain & Harel, 2013, download ).

Escalation detection

Escalation detection is based on the recommended architecture. The rules used for detecting escalation are those used to define the design scope.

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Updated on 28 Jun 2016.