Journal of Information Security Research Jennifer Brings, Marian Daun 10 4 2019 https://doi.org/10.6025/jisr/2019/10/4/124-133 http://www.dline.info/jisr/fulltext/v10n4/jisrv10n4_3.pdf Networking can assist to build Collaborative cyber-physical systems. These networks can achieve goals that are unachievable to individual systems. Due to their dynamic natures such networks must handle a variety of configurations which influence the goals that can be achievable. In this paper we study the use of an approach combining a goal and a special configuration model to reason about permissible and unwanted network configurations. The first level assessment outcome from an industrial case study specified that the approach can help discover problematic network configurations for networks of collaborative cyber-physical systems.