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Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

By : Sravani Bhattacharjee
Book Image

Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

By: Sravani Bhattacharjee

Overview of this book

Securing connected industries and autonomous systems is of primary concern to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) community. Unlike cybersecurity, cyber-physical security directly ties to system reliability as well as human and environmental safety. This hands-on guide begins by establishing the foundational concepts of IIoT security with the help of real-world case studies, threat models, and reference architectures. You’ll work with practical tools to design risk-based security controls for industrial use cases and gain practical knowledge of multi-layered defense techniques, including identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, and communication infrastructure. You’ll also understand how to secure IIoT lifecycle processes, standardization, and governance. In the concluding chapters, you’ll explore the design and implementation of resilient connected systems with emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the all the knowledge required to design industry-standard IoT systems confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Disclaimer
Preface
I
I
Index

Fieldbus protocols


The term fieldbus was coined to refer to a family of industrial computer network protocols used for real-time distributed control.

The ecosystem of fieldbus-based protocols is going to remain in deployment for the foreseeable future. Industrial internet platforms and applications have to directly or indirectly interact with fieldbus protocols to acquire data or to communicate actuation signals. In an IIoT context, the security of these protocols becomes all the more important.

Most of the fieldbus protocols facilitate data exchange between field devices, PLCs, and so on. Some common characteristics of fieldbus technologies are as follows:

  • Information security mechanisms are typically not built into fieldbus protocols. They are designed for highly controlled, air-gapped operational domains.
  • These protocols are not supported by open standard communities.
  • Originally developed by a given industrial connectivity vendor, the protocols were adopted in an ecosystem serving vertical...