Enabling and Optimizing MACsec for Industrial Environments

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Abstract

Industry 4.0 will revolutionize industrial automation. Yet, future smart factories will not be created from scratch. They will rather evolve from existing legacy installations. Consequently, also industrial networks will evolve and the result will be a mixture of new and legacy components. This will make new security mechanisms necessary, that are specifically designed for this industrial use case. This work proposes modifications for MACsec [1], a new security protocol for protecting communication traffic. These modifications enable MACsec to work within future industrial settings, circumventing drawbacks introduced by legacy networking technologies. Furthermore, we managed to significantly increase the performance of MACsec.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number9272319
Pages (from-to)7599-7606
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE transactions on industrial informatics
Volume17
Issue number11
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85111964374
ORCID /0000-0002-9060-5577/work/142244850
ORCID /0000-0002-0466-562X/work/142246119

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