Sarcouncil Journal of Engineering and Computer Sciences

Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have played a major role in the development of energy management, transportation, smart manufacturing, and other mission-dependent industrial applications. One need is real-time, continuous connection between the cyber and physical parts. However, its integration with various types of devices, obsolete industrial protocols and IP-based networks make it extremely vulnerable to exploitations. Therefore, the threats are able to eavesdrop, spoof, denial-of-service, and data manipulation attacks on secure communication architectures of IIoT and CPS, which in particular include core systems, architectural layers, and communication protocols, as well as security mechanisms. The characteristics of IIoT situations, dispositional formations of CPS, and the role of communications and networking technologies in the data exchange. Other significant security approaches led to the industrial environment like authentication, encryption, lightweight cryptography, secure management of keys, and use of middleware and gateways are a limited resource available within a system care of the real-time security-related constraints so that the stability and safety of the system may be ensured that there is a requirement of secure communication structures that are flexible and capable of predicting industrial uses.