Online Conference 'Shaping a globally secure Industrie 4.0 Ecosystem' Conference report

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More than 700 participants joined this years international conference 'Shaping a globally secure Industrie 4.0 Ecosystem - Enabling international interoperable security policies'. Once more the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Plattform Industrie 4.0 brought together key players to discuss the future of IIoT security. The three day conference agenda offered a variety of formats: Key notes, 18 presentations, a panel discussion with regulators from four national and international institutions, and a live interview with a representative from the Federation of German Industries.

Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany) and Max Lemke (Head of Unit E.4 for Internet of Things in DG CONNECT, European Commission) opened the conference with their welcome speeches. The following session on trustworthiness presented a broad overview of the recent achievements. Additionally, a demonstator presented the practical implementation of the concept of trust. Interoperability was the topic of the afternoon session and was discussed based on three presentations. The day was summed up by a Recap Panel.

The second day had the motto 'Policy approaches, digital sovereignty and the role of GAIA-X'. A live interview with Dr. Thomas Koenen (Head of the Department for Digitization and Innovation, BDI) started the session. To portray the different policy approaches on a national and international level, the panel discussion brought together four representatives from regulatory bodies. Digital sovereignty and the role of GAIA-X was discussed in the afternoon session by Prof. Keunhee Han from Korea, Dr. Thomas Usländer (Fraunhofer IOSB), and the interim CEO GAIA-X AISBL, Hubert Tardieu. During the recap panel, Michael Jochem (Robert Bosch GmbH / Plattform Industrie 4.0) and Dr. Lutz Jänicke (Phoenix Contact / Plattform Industrie 4.0) were interviewed about the advancements since the 2018 conference and about their expectations for the future.

Day three 'Paper session and transfer to SMEs via demonstrators' focused on the latest scientific results. It explored the way Industrie 4.0 security solutions can be transferred to small and medium enterprises. The discussion included presentations on the asset administration shell (AAS), trustworthiness and agile regulations. During the demonstrator session, we saw four presentations on demonstrators and experienced a vivid Q&A session. Michael Jochem (Robert Bosch GmbH / Plattform Industrie 4.0) used the closing remarks to reflect the past days and ended the conference 'Shaping a globally secure Industrie 4.0 Ecosystem - Enabling international interoperable security policies' with a call for more international cooperation.

You find all presentations and the videos in chronological order below.

Day 1:
Trustworthiness and the way towards interoperability

Moderator: Ina Karabasz

Welcome and Introduction [Video 00:00 to 01:53]

Welcome Note from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany – Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker (Parliamentary State Secretary) [Video 01:53 to 08:00]

Welcome Note from the European Commission – Max Lemke (Head of Unit E.4 for Internet of Things in DG CONNECT, European Commission) [Video 08:44 to 26:26]

Standbild aus Video — **Welcome to the Online Conference - Welcome**

Session on “Trustworthiness” – Trustworthiness for secure supply chains within a framework of international standards.

Dr. Wolfgang Klasen (Siemens / Plattform Industrie 4.0): Achieving Trustworthiness of Secure Supply Chains for Industrie 4.0 [Presentation / Video 00:00 to 21:11]
Vyacheslav Zolotnikov (Kaspersky ICS CERT): Approaching industrial IoT trustworthiness in international standards and guidelines [Presentation / Video 21:11 to 42:48]

Ayaji Furukawa (Toshiba Corporation / RRI): The Role of Trustwor-thiness in secure supply chain for connected industries [Presentation / Video 00:42:48 to 01:01:22]
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges (Institute for Legal Informatics, Saarland University) and Benjamin Korth (Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML): Towards the automation of trustworthiness: Basic concepts and practical demonstration from the „Industry 4.0 Legal Testbed” [Presentation / Video 01:13:48 to 01:44:10]

Session on “Interoperability” – How to make the concept of ‘trust’ interoperable and which standardization approaches will lead to interoperability?

Dr.-Ing. Lutz Jänicke (Phoenix Contact / Plattform Industrie 4.0): Secure retrieval of CAE data [Presentation / Video 00:50 to 15:43]
Jens Mehrfeld (BSI): Trust infrastructures for Industrie 4.0 – Requirements, solutions, and challenges [Presentation / Video 15:43 to 32:43]
Torsten Förder (Beckhoff Automation): Standardizing a Generic Trust Anchor API for Industrial IoT Devices [Presentation / Video 32:43 to 56:00]

Recap Panel

Day 2:
Policy approaches, digital sovereignty and the role of GAIA-X

Moderator: Ina Karabasz

Welcome and Introduction [Video 00:00 to 01:26]

Keynote Interview - Dr. Thomas Koenen (Head of the Department for Digitization and Innovation, BDI) [Video 01:26 to 32:23]

Panel Discussion - “Policy approaches: How do authorities respond to the challenges of industrial internet security?”

Participants:

Dr. Apostolos Malatras – European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
Arne Schönbohm – Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
Koji Nakao – National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC)
Dr. Sandro Mari – Ministry of Economic Development, DG for Communications Technologies and Information Security - High Institute for ICT

Session on “Digital Sovereignty and the role of GAIA-X” – International data spaces, requirements for data sovereignty and Cyber Security in the Republic of Korea. Spotlight: GAIA-X.

Prof. Keunhee Han (Korea University, Graduate School of Information Security): Manufacturing Security in Korea – An Overview [Presentation / Video 00:00 to 23:44]
Dr. Thomas Usländer (Fraunhofer IOSB): International Data Spaces tailored to Industrie 4.0 - How to Address the Requirements for Data Sovereignty [Presentation / Video 23:44 to 44:32]
Hubert Tardieu (interim CEO GAIA-X AISBL): The role of GAIA-X for achieving Digital Sovereignty [Presentation / Video 00:44:32 to 01:18:06]

Recap Panel “What has been achieved and what’s going to be ‘next big thing’?”

Day 3:
Paper session and transfer to SMEs via demonstrators

Moderator: Michael Jochem (Robert Bosch GmbH / Plattform Industrie 4.0)

Welcome and Introduction [Video 00:00 to 02:33]

Paper session covering the topics ‘Agile Regulations’, ‘Industrie 4.0 Architectures’, ‘Asset Administration Shell’ and ‘Trustworthiness’

Dr. Antonis Michalas (University of Westminster / Lund University): Factory Belt: Secure and Trusted Industry 4.0 Architectures [Presentation / Video 02:33 to 24:18]
Andre Bröring (OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts): Secure Asset Administration Shell exchange with Distributed Ledger Technology [Presentation / Video 24:18 to 38:48]
Dr. Jürgen Neises (Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH), George Moldovan (Raiffeisen Bank International), and Thomas Walloschke (Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH): Trustworthiness as facilitator of Policy and Access Management in Supply Chains [Presentation / Video 38:48 to 57:25]
Dr. Jed Horner (Standards Australia): Building cyber resilience through agile regulation – standards as enablers [Presentation / Video 00:57:25 to 01:11:24]

Demonstrator session discussing practical implementation approaches

Tianzhe Yu (ifak): Implementing certificate-based authentication on application level [Presentation / Video 00:00:00 to 00:18:13]
Nils Herzberg (SAP): Open Industry 4.0 Alliance - Putting the secure Industry 4.0 into reality [Presentation / Video 00:18:13 to 00:36:05]
Prof Dr Ir Egbert-Jan Sol (TNO Industry): Cyber secure factory floor - The technology for a tightly locked firewall with only OPC_UA access is there, but educate and train your OT-people [Presentation / Video 00:36:05 to 00:54:14]
Friedrich Volz (Fraunhofer IOSB): Sharing of Asset Administration Shells with the International Data Spaces Connector [Presentation / Video 00:54:14 to 01:09:18]