September 22, 11:30 - 12:00 a.m. with Thomas Schildknecht, Schildknecht AG
IIoT edge and cloud security architecture in practice
The presentation describes the requirements for the security architecture of IIoT applications. The focus is on the special features of horizontal networking of applications that are connected to cloud systems via mobile communications. The differences in requirements and architecture compared to vertical networking, i.e. in the company's own network, and remote maintenance solutions are worked out on the basis of concretely implemented applications representative of globally distributed crane applications at Conductix-Wampfler.
If machines and systems are delivered to end customers worldwide and need to send data from there to the cloud, this is referred to as horizontal networking. In very few cases do end customers allow their own network and Internet access to be used for this purpose. Mobile communications 2G-5G is used for these applications. IIoT applications with horizontal networking have significantly higher functional requirements and therefore also require a coordinated system and security architecture. Based on over 10 years of practical experience and the implementation of several hundred industrial IoT projects, the requirements are presented at the beginning of the presentation.
The functional requirements imposed force a security architecture that takes into account the fact that IIoT edge gateways, as the link between the machine and the cloud, are outside the machine's own sphere of influence.