Invited Talks -- A Domain-Specific Framework for Automated Construction and Verification of Railway Control Systems -- Medical Systems -- Model-Based Development of Medical Devices -- Why Are People’s Decisions Sometimes Worse with Computer Support? -- Industrial Experience -- Safety-Related Application Conditions – A Balance between Safety Relevance and Handicaps for Applications -- Probability of Failure on Demand – The Why and the How -- Establishing the Correlation between Complexity and a Reliability Metric for Software Digital I&C-Systems -- Security Risk Analysis -- Exploring Network Security in PROFIsafe -- Modelling Critical Infrastructures in Presence of Lack of Data with Simulated Annealing – Like Algorithms -- Environment Characterization and System Modeling Approach for the Quantitative Evaluation of Security -- Safety Guidelines -- Experiences with the Certification of a Generic Functional Safety Management Structure According to IEC 61508 -- Analysing Dependability Case Arguments Using Quality Models -- Experience with Establishment of Reusable and Certifiable Safety Lifecycle Model within ABB -- Automotive -- Automotive IT-Security as a Challenge: Basic Attacks from the Black Box Perspective on the Example of Privacy Threats -- Safety Requirements for a Cooperative Traffic Management System: The Human Interface Perspective -- Aerospace -- The COMPASS Approach: Correctness, Modelling and Performability of Aerospace Systems -- Formal Verification of a Microkernel Used in Dependable Software Systems -- Issues in Tool Qualification for Safety-Critical Hardware: What Formal Approaches Can and Cannot Do -- Verification, Validation, Test -- Probabilistic Failure Propagation and Transformation Analysis -- Towards Model-Based Automatic Testing of Attack Scenarios -- CRIOP: A Human Factors Verification and Validation Methodology That Works in an Industrial Setting -- Fault Tolerance -- Reliability Analysis for the Advanced Electric Power Grid: From Cyber Control and Communication to Physical Manifestations of Failure -- Increasing the Reliability of High Redundancy Actuators by Using Elements in Series and Parallel -- AN-Encoding Compiler: Building Safety-Critical Systems with Commodity Hardware -- Dependability -- Component-Based Abstraction in Fault Tree Analysis -- A Foundation for Requirements Analysis of Dependable Software -- Establishing a Framework for Dynamic Risk Management in ‘Intelligent’ Aero-Engine Control.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2008, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2009. The 25 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical systems, industrial experience, security risk analysis, safety guidelines, automotive, aerospace, verification, valdidation, test, fault tolerance, dependability.