A Survey on Security Requirements, Threats and Protocols in Industrial Internet of Things

Abstract

With the tremendous success and prevalence of the Internet of Things (IoT) consumer technologies are shifted to distinct areas. Therefore, the IoT paradigm is evoluting with people interactions by devices and applications. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an form of this recent evolution. IIoT is emerged considering various components of industrial requirements such as automation, monitoring, management. Depending on aims such as large scalability, high cost minimization on manufacturing, safety and management, the IIoT technology provides many benefits. While huge scope and many advantages of this intelligent decision and analysis paradigm which termed as IIoT, it also hosts serious security issues such as threats and vulnerabilities. Although, many similarities with IoT security challenges such as lack of standardization and device characteristics, when considering scope of IIoT, security must tackle in different aspects. In this article, we examine the IIoT concept in terms of manufacturing domain. We investigate the relationship between IIoT and IoT and highlighted their differences at manufacturer/consumer point. We present a comprehensive security study on IIoT technology. We define the IIoT technology on security direction. We also summarize studies on literature over the period 2017-2022 on IIoT security, focusing in particular on the security challenges, attacks and issues. We presents security, threats, challenges and issues of IIoT systems considering all levels. Finally, we highlight IIoT protocols in terms of security aspect and we emphasize open problems.

Keywords

• IIoT
• Security
• Threats
• Protocols

Thanks

We thank Professor Sedat Akleylek for his valuable discussions.

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