Abstract: An engineering system for engineering, programming and/or configuring industrial automation components and particularly engineering, programming and/or configuring security related features of automation components in automation projects, automation components, automation component databases, receiving tools, a computer program, a data carrier signal and a method for facilitating the provision of automation component configurations for automation components of an industrial automation project, wherein the method especially focuses on security aspects of automation projects, and wherein automation component description data comprising functionality parameters for configuring functionality of the automation components and security parameters for configuring security functions of the automation components are determined and, based on the industrial automation project, a functionality parameter setting for the functionality parameters and a security parameter setting for the security parameters is determined To f