IoT Security

7Biometric‐Based Robust Access Control Model for Industrial Internet of Things Applications

Pardeep Kumar and Gurjot Singh Gaba

Abstract

Information and operational technologies are being used together and making the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) happen in the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In this paradigm, smart devices (i.e. sensors) will be offered services and shared data to the user and so the cloud. As these devices will communicate with the users through the open network (i.e. Internet), user authentication is one of the most important security features to protect IIoT data access from unauthorized users. However, there exist traditional security techniques but these require heavy computational complexities. Therefore, such traditional schemes cannot be deployed directly to the smart devices in IIoT applications. This chapter proposes a biometric‐based robust access control model (i.e. user authentication) that would perform a robust authentication and establish a session key between the user and smart devices. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated in terms of computation cost in the IIoT environment.

Keywords: industrial internet of things; security; access control; biometric

7.1 Introduction

The connection between industry and the advancement in computing, analytics, low‐cost sensing and seamless connectivity of internet is full of promise [1]. The degree of transformation is emerging and there is reference to a “breakthrough” in terms of production ...