(155c) Assessing Cybersecurity Risk in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Applications
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2021
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety
Industry 4.0 Topical Conference
Cybersecurity in the Chemical Industry; Where Process Safety, Control and Optimization Meet the Digital Age of Connectivity I (invited session)
Friday, April 23, 2021 - 10:10am to 10:30am
The advent of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) within the chemical industry has the potential to expose control and safety systems to significant cyber security threats. These include:
- Exposure of the ICS to untrusted external connectivity
- Poor controls on generic IIoT Gateways or Edge Devices
- Weak Cloud Security
- Control conflicts and process upset derived from the advent multiple control schemes
This presentation will review the results of a cybersecurity risk assessment of 4 common IIoT applications and recommend secure architectures and associated security controls appropriate to each.