Standards and reference architecture
A practical scheme to standardize and regulate IIoT security practices is in need of much attention. Today, there exists an enormous body of safety and security standards for industrial systems. Many of these standards are vertical-specific, and, even within one industry, there are multiple overlapping standards. Secure coding, for example, has standards from MISRA to DISA, CWE, CERT, and more. Efforts to comply with an overlapping set of standards can be suboptimal. Besides, security standards and regulations often emerge with new technologies, such as machine learning, cloud security, and so on.
As the horizon of our autonomous future gets demystified, standard bodies must leverage the increasing visibility to define comprehensive, overarching security governance standards for the industrial internet. While defining such standards, sufficient care should be exercised to optimize them. Industrial IoT innovations are happening at a rapid pace.
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