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CKMI: Comprehensive key management infrastructure design for Industrial Automation and Control Systems

TitleCKMI: Comprehensive key management infrastructure design for Industrial Automation and Control Systems
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsPramod, T. C., G. S. Thejas, S. S. Iyengar, and N. R. Sunitha
JournalFuture Internet
Volume11
Issue1999-5903
Date Published2019
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number19995903 (ISSN)
KeywordsComputer Science & Technology, Scopus, WoS
Abstract

Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) are broadly utilized in critical infrastructures for monitoring and controlling the industrial processes remotely. The real-time transmissions in such systems provoke security breaches. Many security breaches have been reported impacting society severely. Hence, it is essential to achieve secure communication between the devices for creating a secure environment. For this to be effective, the keys used for secure communication must be protected against unauthorized disclosure, misuse, alteration or loss, which can be taken care of by a Key Management Infrastructure. In this paper, by considering the generic industrial automation network, a comprehensive key management infrastructure (CKMI) is designed for IACS. To design such an infrastructure, the proposed scheme employs ECDH, matrix method, and polynomial crypto mechanisms. The proposed design handles all the standard key management operations, viz. key generation, device registration, key establishment, key storage, device addition, key revocation, key update, key recovery, key archival, and key de-registration and destruction. The design supports secure communication between the same and different levels of IACS devices. The proposed design can be applied for major industrial automation networks to handle the key management operations. The performance analysis and implementation results highlight the benefits of the proposed design. © 2019 by the authors.

DOI10.3390/fi11060126
Short TitleFuture Internet