Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Factories in Industry 4.0
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 5739
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Interests: intelligent systems
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Dear Colleagues,
The Industry 4.0 movement is promoting increased connectivity between smart devices. Inexpensive computational devices such as single board computers are enabling the manufacturing industry to realise considerable increases in efficiencies and performance, as previously disconnected processes are now being interlinked into digital supply chains.
Cyberphysical systems exploit the interconnectedness of Industry 4.0 and use a variety of data sources to inform the control and actuation of physical entities, such as those in manufacturing systems.
Such tight integration raises concerns for cybersecurity and trust, whether it be from nefarious agents who wish to conduct industrial espionage or from system vulnerabilities that may interrupt the smooth operation of supply chains.
This Special Issue explores the design, implementation, and evaluation of cybersecurity technologies and approaches as they are utilized to support the realisation of Industry 4.0.
A fundamental component of Industry 4.0 is the ability to sense physical phenomena and provide data as an input. This Special Issue directly addresses the need to work with sensors and sensor data, especially with regard to how we can ensure that data are held and transported securely.
Prof. Dr. Richard Hill
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- industry 4.0
- cybersecurity
- distributed ledger technology
- blockchain
- intrusion detection
- wireless network security
- secure cyberphysical systems
- trust
- model checking and verification of secure systems
- wireless sensor networks
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