Approach for Securing Network Communications Modelling Based on Smart Multipath Routing

Abstract

Digital transformation, or Industry 4.0, is already changing manufacturing processes as it brings more automation to standardized Industrial Control Systems (ICS) based systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. It is performed by the means of cyber-physical systems such as Internet of Things (IoT). For now, these “Things” are communicating in a new network area, where peer-to-peer communications are widely used. Such networks are responsible for real life processes safety. However, such shift also extends a threat vectors and entry points for an adversary inside the industrial segments. In the paper, new cybersecurity challenges on the Industrial Internet of Things network segments are considered as well as known practices to mitigate some of them. As a result, a peer-to-peer smart multipath network routing based on garlic routing is proposed to model secure network communications in IoT field. An approach is aimed to be used on the IoT field to tackle all of the network-scoped cybersecurity challenges.