Secure Information Sharing in an Industrial Internet of Things

TL;DR

This paper explores security challenges in Industrial IoT, proposing a roadmap with short-term best practices and long-term fine-grained access control solutions for secure external data sharing.

Contribution

It identifies key security requirements and presents a comprehensive roadmap for enhancing IIoT security through both immediate and future-oriented strategies.

Findings

Security challenges in IIoT identified

Roadmap for security improvements proposed

Long-term solution includes fine-grained access control

Abstract

This paper investigates how secure information sharing with external vendors can be achieved in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It also identifies necessary security requirements for secure information sharing based on identified security challenges stated by the industry. The paper then proposes a roadmap for improving security in IIoT which investigates both short-term and long-term solutions for protecting IIoT devices. The short-term solution is mainly based on integrating existing good practices. The paper also outlines a long term solution for protecting IIoT devices with fine-grained access control for sharing data between external entities that would support cloud-based data storage.