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Authors:
Rainer Falk
Keywords: Ubiquitous Security, Industrial Communication, Energy Automation, Sensor Actuator Network
Abstract:
Industrial control networks, e.g., for factory, process or energy automation and smart metering, are increasingly based on IT communication technologies like Ethernet, IP, and Web-Services. Security measures as authentication or cryptographic VPNs are used to protect communication links to supervising control stations and for remote service. While standard communication tech-nologies have been used at the supervision level for some time, they will increasingly be used down to the field level comprising a huge number of field level control devices, sensors and actuators. These may be installed in largely distributed, uncontrolled areas. IT security measures are needed to protect the exchange of control commands and monitoring information between these field level devices and towards control stations. The efficient and secure distribution of required security credentials is challenging This paper describes a service for managing security credentials for ubiquitous field level devices (sensors, actuators) in an industrial automation environment.
Pages: 104 to 110
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010
Publication date: November 21, 2010
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3549
ISBN: 978-1-61208-105-2
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010