Security of Cloud Services with Low-Performance Devices in Critical Infrastructures

TL;DR

This paper examines security challenges faced by low-performance IoT devices in critical infrastructure cloud services, focusing on electrical actuators and battery storages, and proposes research directions to address these issues.

Contribution

It introduces a research framework for analyzing security in low-performance IoT devices within critical infrastructures, emphasizing specific applications like electrical actuators and batteries.

Findings

Identification of key security issues in low-performance IoT devices

Proposed research directions for enhancing security in critical infrastructure IoT

Application-specific security considerations for electrical actuators and batteries

Abstract

As part of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 Cloud services are increasingly interacting with low-performance devices that are used in automation. This results in security issues that will be presented in this paper. Particular attention is paid to so-called critical infrastructures. The authors intend to work on the addressed security challenges as part of a funded research project, using electrical actuators and battery storages as specific applications. The core ideas of this research project are also presented in this paper.