The increase in interconnected devices in electrical power systems raises the attack surface of a network and therefore the system connected within the network. Cyber-attacks can lead to power cut of an individual system or multiple systems required in the power generation stage and critical in normal operation of the ...

Security remains a key discussion point for industrial networks within critical infrastructure and Industry 4.0 (I4.0)/Smart Manufacturing infrastructures. While availability remains the chief security requirement for highest safety, integrity protection has become somewhat equal to availability in industry. Common ...

Gossiping is a well-researched protocol that enables decentralized information sharing. Being comparable to viruses spreading in a biological population, such concepts of data sharing are also called epidemic protocol. Without wanting to be impious with respect to recent pandemics, we propose its usage to facilitate a ...

OPC UA is an industry-standard architecture for automation, process controlling and monitoring. It is a detailed and complex machine-to-machine communication protocol which makes it challenging to implement. The complexity of the protocol leads to heterogeneity among implementations. Today, there are several open-source ...

The 5th GI/ACM Workshop Programme on Standardization of Secure and Safe Production within Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) took place virtually at September 28, 2020 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that hosted the 50th GI's yearly assembly (GI Informatik 2020 Jahrestagung): https://inform ...

Before the last decade, production units and its related systems were considered nearly as island systems and were managed as an air-gaped in their daily operations. Information and network security was not an issue because their plant's safety and continues operations have the highest priority. In the recent years, many ...

Virtualization technology is a technology that has been integrated a lot lately, thanks to its interoperability and enhanced performances. An essential element in virtualization is the hypervisor that is responsible of managing virtual machines; it allows various guest operating systems (OS) to run on one hardware entity ...

Secure data exchange between different geographical sites (e.g. industrial manufacturing facilities, power plants, research labs, and manufacturer test facilities) is an important part of cybersecurity. It is for example addressed by section 13 “Communications Security” of ISO/IEC 27002:2013. ISO/IEC 27033-4:2014 gives ...

This paper explores how domain specific modelling can be used to support the identification of potential vulnerabilities and risks in Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) to enhance security by enabling a mitigation of these vulnerabilities. This approach can be used to support already deployed IACS or to ...

Direct-To-Consumer (D2C) marketing recently gains popularity in society by bypassing unnecessary mediators and thus avoiding cost. In Information and Communication Technology (ICT) terms, it is comparable with Machine-To-Machine (M2M) communication overcoming additional mediators, i.e. remote servers. In this paper, we ...