A Self-Protecting Control Application for IIoT

Abstract

Industrial control applications are today software defined and networked, making them even more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Hence there is the need to investigate new solutions that are secure by design. In this paper, we propose a self-protecting architecture for a control application suitable for Industrial Internet-of-Things deployments. The proposed solution, by using redundancy, is capable of self-detecting cyberattacks to its logic and to autonomously activate mitigation actions.