Secured SECS/GEM: A Security Mechanism for M2M Communication in Industry 4.0 Ecosystem

The manufacturing industry has been revolutionized by Industry 4.0, vastly improving the process, increasing production quality and capacity. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication protocols were developed to strengthen bind this ecosystem allowing machines communicate with each other. SECS/GEM protocol is at heart of industry, thriving as a control system for years. It equipment used equipment-host data communications. However, it not without drawbacks, despite being widely adopted leading industries. does offer any type security features was designed work in closed network. Such shortcomings will allow attackers steal secrets such processes looking recipes, perform reconnaissance prior sabotage attempts, can have severe implications on entire industry. This paper proposes mechanism secure messages AES-GCM encryption evaluate performance standard protocol. results from our evaluations showed that proposed achieves confidentiality authenticity negligible overhead 0.8 milliseconds 0.37 when sending receiving message, respectively, compared