SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape

Industry 4.0 as a driving force is making huge strides, particularly in the manufacturing sector, where all integral components involved in the production processes are getting digitally interconnected. Fused with improved automation and robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data,...

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Autores principales:	Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari, Selvakumar Manickam, Ayman Khallel Al-Ani, Shafiq Ul Rehman, Shankar Karuppayah
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Publicado:	IEEE 2021
Materias:	Cybersecurity DoS-attack IIoT industry 4.0 M2M machine-to-machine communications Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering TK1-9971
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9f3dbc6e1612445ca7b22a46f11e2ce42021-11-25T00:00:28ZSECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape2169-353610.1109/ACCESS.2021.3127515https://doaj.org/article/9f3dbc6e1612445ca7b22a46f11e2ce42021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9612213/https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536Industry 4.0 as a driving force is making huge strides, particularly in the manufacturing sector, where all integral components involved in the production processes are getting digitally interconnected. Fused with improved automation and robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), this open network interconnectivity makes industrial systems increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. While the impacts and intentions of cyber-attacks vary, they always have a detrimental effect on manufacturers, including financial losses, supply chain disruption, loss of reputation and competitiveness, and theft of corporate secrets. Semiconductor Equipment Communication Standard/Generic Equipment Model (SECS/GEM) is a legacy Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication protocol used profoundly in the semiconductor and other manufacturing industries. It is mainly designed to be utilized in a controlled and regulated factory environment separated from external networks. Industry 4.0 has revolutionized the manufacturing industry and has brought SECS/GEM back to the limelight as it lacks security safeguards to protect against cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a digital signature-based security mechanism that offers authentication, integrity, and protection against cyber-attacks. The proposed mechanism is compared with the industry-standard SECS/GEM implementation in terms of processing time, payload overhead, and resilience against cyber-attacks. The results indicate that SECS/GEMsec effectively prevented untrusted entities from establishing communication links with legit industrial equipment while maintaining message integrity by discarding forged messages. Additionally, it protected SECS/GEM communications against Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, Replay attacks, and False-Data-Injection-Attack (FDIA) attacks.Shams Ul Arfeen LaghariSelvakumar ManickamAyman Khallel Al-AniShafiq Ul RehmanShankar KaruppayahIEEEarticleCybersecurityDoS-attackIIoTindustry 4.0M2Mmachine-to-machine communicationsElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringTK1-9971ENIEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 154380-154394 (2021)
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topic	Cybersecurity DoS-attack IIoT industry 4.0 M2M machine-to-machine communications Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering TK1-9971
spellingShingle	Cybersecurity DoS-attack IIoT industry 4.0 M2M machine-to-machine communications Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering TK1-9971 Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari Selvakumar Manickam Ayman Khallel Al-Ani Shafiq Ul Rehman Shankar Karuppayah SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape
description	Industry 4.0 as a driving force is making huge strides, particularly in the manufacturing sector, where all integral components involved in the production processes are getting digitally interconnected. Fused with improved automation and robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), this open network interconnectivity makes industrial systems increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. While the impacts and intentions of cyber-attacks vary, they always have a detrimental effect on manufacturers, including financial losses, supply chain disruption, loss of reputation and competitiveness, and theft of corporate secrets. Semiconductor Equipment Communication Standard/Generic Equipment Model (SECS/GEM) is a legacy Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication protocol used profoundly in the semiconductor and other manufacturing industries. It is mainly designed to be utilized in a controlled and regulated factory environment separated from external networks. Industry 4.0 has revolutionized the manufacturing industry and has brought SECS/GEM back to the limelight as it lacks security safeguards to protect against cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a digital signature-based security mechanism that offers authentication, integrity, and protection against cyber-attacks. The proposed mechanism is compared with the industry-standard SECS/GEM implementation in terms of processing time, payload overhead, and resilience against cyber-attacks. The results indicate that SECS/GEMsec effectively prevented untrusted entities from establishing communication links with legit industrial equipment while maintaining message integrity by discarding forged messages. Additionally, it protected SECS/GEM communications against Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, Replay attacks, and False-Data-Injection-Attack (FDIA) attacks.
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author	Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari Selvakumar Manickam Ayman Khallel Al-Ani Shafiq Ul Rehman Shankar Karuppayah
author_facet	Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari Selvakumar Manickam Ayman Khallel Al-Ani Shafiq Ul Rehman Shankar Karuppayah
author_sort	Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari
title	SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape
title_short	SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape
title_full	SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape
title_fullStr	SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape
title_full_unstemmed	SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape
title_sort	secs/gemsec: a mechanism for detection and prevention of cyber-attacks on secs/gem communications in industry 4.0 landscape
publisher	IEEE
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/9f3dbc6e1612445ca7b22a46f11e2ce4
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SECS/GEMsec: A Mechanism for Detection and Prevention of Cyber-Attacks on SECS/GEM Communications in Industry 4.0 Landscape

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