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CBI, or Computer Based Interlocking, is an arrangement of signal devices that prevent conflicting movements through computer-based technologies. Interlocking systems, or IXL, prevent trains from conflicting movements along the track and make it impossible to display a signal to proceed unless the route is proven safe. Trains are guided by signals and appliances like relays and mechanics through control cables. A CBI system uses computers, which provides more advanced reliability and security than earlier mechanical or electrical systems.
Previously interlockings were fully mechanical and not compertized. Computer-Based Interlocking can be compromised via software exploitation, leading to safety and security disruptions.
Leading safety standard make the assupmtion that interlocking systems are always air-gapped and therefore shouldn't be encrypted, while air gaps are a known as an unreliable security measure.
Computer Based Interlocking is a fail safe system, and therefore most abnormal commands can lead to an immediate halt. Threat actors can leverage these halts to cause harm.
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