A cross-domain authenticated access control framework for secure industrial IoT

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) plays a pivotal role in enhancing cost-effective solutions to reduce resource waste in industrial processes. An IIoT environment processes the real-time data across public channels which poses several kinds of security and privacy concerns. In today’s industrial requirement, different domain authenticated access control is crucial; there is a need to design a mechanism that considers production issues induced by unauthorized access. This work develops a robust and efficient cross-domain three-factor user-authenticated access control method that balances both security and efficiency. After that, a comprehensive security analysis and algorithm verification are performed using the AVISPA tool, which also determines whether an adversary with a stronger attack capacity is capable of breaking the protocol. Then performance analyses are calculated using NS3 to show the efficiency and applicability of the proposed protocol, also the results show that the protocol is better than the other existing protocols. In particular, this scheme demonstrates that the computation cost is $$75.3%$$ lesser than the cost of the four compared protocols. Finally, the energy evaluation outcomes regarding network latency and energy usage show that the proposed protocol for industry is feasible.