Workshop Description:

Industry 4.0 has emerged by the convergence of Operations Technology (i.e. traditional hardware and software systems) and Information Technology (e.g. distributed compute device, ubiquitous communication systems, big data analytics and artificial intelligence). Industrial Internet of Things (ΙΙοΤ) has great potential to enable significant advances in optimizing operations among a large number of increasingly autonomous control systems and devices. These advances can have a profound impact on many industry domains, with smart factories and logistics being among the most notable cases. At the same time, cybersecurity risks associated with IoT devices makes it extremely difficult to harness their full potential: IIoT systems dramatically increase the attack surface (introducing new security threats due to newly connected devices and protocols, which are more vulnerable to attacks such as interference and resource exhaustion). The exploitation of IoT devices can be exploited to cause disruption of process controls, theft of intellectual property (i.e. industrial espionage), loss of corporate data, and even harm to the safety of workers in the factory floor.

In this context, the aim of the first International Workshop on Secure and resilient smart manufacturing environments (SecRS) is to bring together researchers; practitioners, industrial stakeholders, and security professionals, to discuss challenges and opportunities in addressing the security, resilience, accountability and trustworthiness requirements of IIoT, collaborative manufacturing and industrial supply chains.

The first SecRS workshop is co-organized by the C4IIoT (“Cyber security 4.0: protecting the Industrial Internet Of Things”), COLLABS (“A COmprehensive cyber-intelligence framework for resilient coLLABorative manufacturing Systems”), CyberSANE (“Cyber Security Incident Handling, Warning and Response System for the European Critical Infrastructures”), and FISHY (“A coordinated framework for cyber resilient supply chain systems over complex ICT infrastructures”) research projects, which have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program.