Laghari, Shams A. and Manickam, Selvakumar and Karuppayah, Shankar and Al-Ani, Ayman and Ul Rehman, Shafiq (2021) Cyberattacks and vociferous implications on SECS/GEM communications in industry 4.0 ecosystem. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 12 (7). pp. 329-336. ISSN 2158-107X,
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Information and communications technology (ICT) is prevalent in almost every field of industrial production and manufacturing processes at present. A typical industry network consists of sensors, actuators, devices, and services to connect, track, and manage production processes to increase performance and boost productivity. The SEMI Equipment Communications Standard/Generic Equipment Model (SECS/GEM) is SEMI's Machine-to-Machine (M2M) protocol for equipment-to-host data communications. It is the most popular and profoundly used M2M communication protocol operating in the manufacturing industry. With Industry 4.0 as a guiding factor, connectivity to business networks is required for accessing real-time data whenever and wherever needed. This openness of connectivity raises security concerns as SECS/GEM protocol offers no security, which endangers exposing the manufacturing industries' business secrets and production processes. This paper discusses the key processes involved in SECS/GEM communications and how potential attackers can manipulate these processes to obtain illegal or unauthorized access. The experiments' results indicate that the SECS/GEM processes are entirely vulnerable to numerous attacks, including DoS attack, Replay attack, and False-Data-Injection-Attack. Thus, the future direction involves developing a prevention mechanism that aims at securing the SECS/GEM processes in the industrial network. This study's findings are useful as preliminary guidance for the infrastructure owners to plan for appropriate security measures to protect the industrial network.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering > Department of Biomedical Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2022 08:19 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2025 08:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/34928 |
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