Securing the Industrial Internet of Things

Carl Weinschenk |, Sept. 20, 2016 – 

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is also called the Industrial Internet, is the domain of industry, government and other realms. It is logistics, fleet management, factory floors, power plants, utilities and other non-consumer facing elements. It's the big stuff.

It's not surprising that IIoT security is very important, complex and daunting. Yesterday, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) released a security framework aimed at helping create a path to a secure IIoT.

The framework, the organization said, focuses on safety, reliability, resilience, security and privacy. Together, these attributes, if satisfied, "define 'trustworthiness' in IIoT systems," the press release says. Determining where organizations are in that evolution is done by looking at risks, assessments, threats, metrics and performance. The four areas that will be tracked are endpoints, communications, monitoring and configuration.

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