Process-Aware Cyber Security Management in the Industrial Internet of Things
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 3846
Special Issue Editor
Interests: business process management; industrial Internet of Things; process mining; process-aware IIoT security; IIoT-aware process modelling
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Dear Colleagues,
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers a broad compendium of technologies from the Internet of Things (IoT) to automate and intelligently network production systems. This networking is achieved by connecting industrial operational technology (OT) with information technology (IT). The resulting convergence leads to more efficient systems and enables new solutions. However, the convergence of IT and OT has a significant drawback: machines and plants become vulnerable to external attacks. In the context of digital production systems, it is essential to understand that cyber security is a joint and overarching task in the fields of both IT and OT. Therefore, security aspects in IIoT environments require special attention, while new solutions for the maintenance of cyber security are necessary. For this reason, regulatory efforts to have been made to establish the implementation of security measures such as IEC62443 in the EU as a standard. According to the IEC62443 standard, respective organizations should follow a security by design paradigm. In this respect, to conduct meaningful and sustainable security management, it is crucial to know and define corporate assets that must be protected as well as operative processes and their information-related needs. Based thereon, risks can be identified, protective measures can be taken, and security incidents can be monitored.
This Special Issue therefore aims to amalgamate original research and review articles regarding recent advancements, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of Industrial IoT security with a strong interdisciplinary focus on underlying operative processes.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Modeling sensor-aware security aspects in IIoT processes;
- (Sensor) technologies supporting privacy and security in IIoT processes;
- IoT and ubiquitous technologies supporting processes;
- Sensor-based security monitoring in IIoT processes;
- Visual analytics enabling cyber security in IIoT;
- IIoT-enhanced process model discovery, recognition, monitoring and prediction;
- Process anomaly detection from sensor-based IIoT data.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Schönig
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- industrial IoT
- cyber security
- process management
- process modelling
- sensors
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