Security Issues on Industrial Internet of Things: Overview and Challenges

Abstract

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), where numerous smart devices associated with sensors, actuators, computers, and people communicate with shared networks, has gained advantages  in many fields, such as smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, and smart grids. However, security is becoming increasingly challenging due to the vulnerability of the IIoT to various malicious attacks. In this paper, the security issues of the IIoT are reviewed from the following three aspects:

1. security threats and their attack mechanisms are presented to illustrate the vulnerability of the IIoT;
2. the intrusion detection methods are listed from the attack identification perspectives; and
3. some defense strategies are comprehensively summarized. Several concluding remarks and promising future directions are provided at the end of this paper.