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Draw me the boundary between your monitoring system and the plant's safety system. How would you know if the safety layer had been altered?
6 min readUpdated 2026-08-15Target archetype: Enterprise Captive
Answer
Short answer
Your path may read from the safety layer and must never write to it, and independence means separate devices, separate logic and separate change control rather than a separate screen.
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