Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

Subscription-based models

In the connected marketplace, there is a prevalence of subscription-based service models, where devices and equipment are leased and/or monitored by a different organization. Third-party organizations not only access data collected from the IoT devices, but they may also need to access the device itself. This calls for a dynamic IAM infrastructure, which can accommodate:

• Multiple organizational boundaries
• Fast access session setup and teardown with IoT devices
• Granting access at multiple levels of granularity

Consider the example of a turbine evaluator machine on lease, which generates test reports on turbine performance for a fixed number of cycles. To publish the test reports online, this evaluator needs to set ...