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Secure communication for Industrie 4.0

A multi-stakeholder problem
  • Lutz Jänicke

    Dr. Lutz Jänicke is the Product & Solution Security Officer of the Phoenix Contact-Group and is responsible for coordinating groupwide activities and processes. He is active in standardization committees and industry associations including the Plattform Industrie 4.0, where he is chair of the secure communication sub-working group. Before taking up the corporate role, Dr. Jänicke was CTO at Innominate Security Technologies AG (now Phoenix Contact Cyber Security GmbH), a provider of industrial security gateways.

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Published/Copyright: May 14, 2019

Abstract

Industrie 4.0 fosters the concept of systems within one company to communicate with external systems in other companies or cloud services. Such communication across security domains creates new challenges as multiple stakeholders with different, sometimes conflicting objectives are involved. Typical examples are confidentiality versus monitoring. Current security architectures and protocols are not designed to resolve these challenges.

Zusammenfassung

Industrie 4.0 baut auf das Konzept der Kommunikation interner Systeme mit den Systemen anderer Unternehmen oder in der Cloud. Diese Kommunikation über Sicherheitsdomänen hinweg erzeugt neue Herausforderungen, da die Sicherheitsinteressen mehrerer Beteiligter mit zum Teil unterschiedlichen Schutzzielen berücksichtigt werden müssen. Typische Zielkonflikte entstehen z. B. zwischen Vertraulichkeit und Überwachungsmöglichkeit. Aktuelle Sicherheitsarchitekturen und Protokolle sind nur begrenzt geeignet, diese Konflikte zu lösen.

About the author

Dr. Lutz Jänicke

Dr. Lutz Jänicke is the Product & Solution Security Officer of the Phoenix Contact-Group and is responsible for coordinating groupwide activities and processes. He is active in standardization committees and industry associations including the Plattform Industrie 4.0, where he is chair of the secure communication sub-working group. Before taking up the corporate role, Dr. Jänicke was CTO at Innominate Security Technologies AG (now Phoenix Contact Cyber Security GmbH), a provider of industrial security gateways.

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Received: 2019-02-11
Accepted: 2019-03-25
Published Online: 2019-05-14
Published in Print: 2019-05-27

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