Securing Wireless Communication in Critical Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract
Critical infrastructure constitutes the foundation of every society. While traditionally solely relying on dedicated cable-based communication, this infrastructure rapidly transforms to highly digitized and interconnected systems which increasingly rely on wireless communication. Besides providing tremendous benefits, especially affording the easy, cheap, and flexible interconnection of a large number of assets spread over larger geographic areas, wireless communication in critical infrastructure also raises unique security challenges. Most importantly, the shift from dedicated private wired networks to heterogeneous wireless communication over public and shared networks requires significantly more involved security measures. In this paper, we identify the most relevant challenges resulting from the use of wireless communication in critical infrastructure and use those to identify a comprehensive set of promising opportunities to preserve the high security standards of critical infrastructure even when switching from wired to wireless communication.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2311.01338,
title = {Securing Wireless Communication in Critical Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities},
author = {Jörn Bodenhausen and Christian Sorgatz and Thomas Vogt and Kolja Grafflage and Sebastian Rötzel and Michael Rademacher and Martin Henze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.01338},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Author's version of a paper accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 20th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2023)