scholarly journals Cryptographic Considerations for Automation and SCADA Systems Using Trusted Platform Modules

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4191
Author(s):  
Alexandra Tidrea ◽  
Adrian Korodi ◽  
Ioan Silea
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Process ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Trusted Platform Module ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
Scada Systems ◽  
System Data ◽  
Trusted Platform Modules ◽  
Trusted Platform

The increased number of cyber threats against the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and automation systems in the Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 era has raised concerns in respect to the importance of securing critical infrastructures and manufacturing plants. The evolution towards interconnection and interoperability has expanded the vulnerabilities of these systems, especially in the context of the widely spread legacy standard protocols, by exposing the data to the outside network. After gaining access to the system data by launching a variety of attacks, an intruder can cause severe damage to the industrial process in place. Hence, this paper attempts to respond to the security issue caused by legacy structures using insecure communication protocols (e.g., Modbus TCP, DNP3, S7), presenting a different perspective focused on the capabilities of a trusted platform module (TPM). Furthermore, the intent is to assure the authenticity of the data transmitted between two entities on the same (horizontal interoperation) or different (vertical interoperation) hierarchical levels communicating through Modbus TCP protocol based on functionalities obtained by integrating trusted platform modules. From the experimental results perspective, the paper aims to show the advantages of integrating TPMs in automation/SCADA systems in terms of security. Two methods are proposed in order to assure the authenticity of the messages which are transmitted, respectively the study presents the measurements related to the increased time latency introduced due to the proposed concept.

Blockchain-Based Industrial Internet of Things for the Integration of Industrial Process Automation Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-186
Author(s):  
Charles Tim Batista Garrocho ◽  
Célio Márcio Soares Ferreira ◽  
Carlos Frederico Marcelo da Cunha Cavalcanti ◽  
Ricardo Augusto Rabelo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Industrial Processes ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
Machine Communication ◽  
Time Systems ◽  
The Impact

The industrial internet of things is expected to attract significant investment to the industry. In this new environment, blockchain presents immediate potential in industrial IoT applications, offering several benefits to industrial cyber-physical systems. However, works in the blockchain literature target environments that do not meet the reality of the factory and do not assess the impact of the blockchain on industrial process requirements. Thus, this chapter presents an investigation of the evolution of industrial process automation systems and blockchain-based applications in the horizontal and vertical integration of the various systems in a supply chain and factories. In addition, through an investigation of experimental work, this work presents issues and challenges to be faced for the application of blockchain in industrial processes. Evaluations and discussions are mainly focused on aspects of real-time systems in machine-to-machine communication of industrial processes.

Erzeugung elektronischer Signaturen mittels Trusted Platform Module

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Stumpf ◽  
Markus Sacher ◽  
Alexander Roßnagel ◽  
Claudia Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Trusted Platform Module ◽  
Trusted Platform

Enhancing the Security of FPGA-SoCs via the Usage of ARM TrustZone and a Hybrid-TPM

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Mathieu Gross ◽  
Konrad Hohentanner ◽  
Stefan Wiehler ◽  
Georg Sigl
Keyword(s):  
Software Design ◽  
Hardware Accelerators ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Trusted Platform Module ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Execution Environment ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Trusted Platform ◽  
Trusted Execution Environment ◽  
Entropy Source

Isolated execution is a concept commonly used for increasing the security of a computer system. In the embedded world, ARM TrustZone technology enables this goal and is currently used on mobile devices for applications such as secure payment or biometric authentication. In this work, we investigate the security benefits achievable through the usage of ARM TrustZone on FPGA-SoCs. We first adapt Microsoft’s implementation of a firmware Trusted Platform Module (fTPM) running inside ARM TrustZone for the Zynq UltraScale+ platform. This adaptation consists in integrating hardware accelerators available on the device to fTPM’s implementation and to enhance fTPM with an entropy source derived from on-chip SRAM start-up patterns. With our approach, we transform a software implementation of a TPM into a hybrid hardware/software design that could address some of the security drawbacks of the original implementation while keeping its flexibility. To demonstrate the security gains obtained via the usage of ARM TrustZone and our hybrid-TPM on FPGA-SoCs, we propose a framework that combines them for enabling a secure remote bitstream loading. The approach consists in preventing the insecure usages of a bitstream reconfiguration interface that are made possible by the manufacturer and to integrate the interface inside a Trusted Execution Environment.

A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques Based on TPM for Ensuring the Confidentiality in Cloud Data Centers

2019 ◽  
pp. 446-458
Author(s):  
Arun Fera M. ◽  
M. Saravanapriya ◽  
J. John Shiny
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Trusted Platform Module ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Secure Storage ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Trusted Platform

Cloud computing is one of the most vital technology which becomes part and parcel of corporate life. It is considered to be one of the most emerging technology which serves for various applications. Generally these Cloud computing systems provide a various data storage services which highly reduces the complexity of users. we mainly focus on addressing in providing confidentiality to users' data. We are proposing one mechanism for addressing this issue. Since software level security has vulnerabilities in addressing the solution to our problem we are dealing with providing hardware level of security. We are focusing on Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which is a chip in computer that is used for secure storage that is mainly used to deal with authentication problem. TPM which when used provides a trustworthy environment to the users. A detailed survey on various existing TPM related security and its implementations is carried out in our research work.

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