Toward zero trust in 5G Industrial Internet collaboration systems

Abstract

With the introduction of 5G, users and devices can access the industrial network from anywhere in the world. Therefore, traditional perimeter-based security technologies for industrial networks can no longer work well. To solve this problem, a new security model called Zero Trust(ZT) is desired, which believes in “never trust and always verify”. Every time the asset in the industrial network is accessed, the subject is authenticated and its trustworthiness is assessed. In this way, the asset in industrial network can be well protected, whether the subject is in the internal network or the external network. However, in order to construct the zero trust model in the 5G Industrial Internet collaboration system, there are still many problems to be solved. In this paper, we first introduce the security issues in the 5G Industrial Internet collaboration system, and illustrate the zero trust architecture. Then, we analyze the gap between existing security techniques and the zero trust architecture. Finally, we discuss several potential security techniques that can be used to implement the zero trust model. The purpose of this paper is to point out the further direction for the realization of the Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) in the 5G Industrial Internet collaboration system.