Digital twins: Double Insecurity for Industrial Scenarios

Abstract

Industry 5.0 is increasingly having a greater influence on the modernization of industrial processes in order to improve not only its own value chain but also the supply chain within a context. In this case, Digital twins (DTs) is a leading technology, providing simulation capabilities to analyze, predict and optimize possible scenarios and situations, which is encouraging different industrial actors to invest in the technology, and especially to intensify the three Industry 5.0 objectives: centrality in the human being, sustainability, and resilience. But this fact, in turn, forces the scientific community to pay attention to the risks that may be involved in adapting the technology itself in its operational domains. The deployment of a DT involves a set of risks and threats that are a consequence of its own criticality, what affects seriously Industry 5.0 resilience. In this talk, therefore, we will talk about that particular context of a DT, where we will explore potential threats that can corrupt the objectives of Industry 5.0, adding some security recommendations that can benefit, at least, the expected Industry 5.0 resilience.