An Open-Source Approach to OT Asset Management in Industrial Environments

Luca Pöhler, Marko Schuba, Tim Höner, Sacha Hack, Georg Neugebauer

2024

Abstract

The need for compliance and the growing number of IT security threats force many companies to improve their level of IT security. At the same time, new legal regulations and the trend to interconnect IT with automation environments (operational technology, OT) lead to the situation that IT security and OT security need to be approached at the same time. However, OT differs from IT in several aspects and many well-established IT security procedures cannot simply be copied to OT networks. As in IT the first step to establish an acceptable security level for OT is to perform a proper risk assessment. Available tools that support OT asset management are either expensive or they do not provide the functionality needed. In the context of this paper a new open-source approach to OT asset management is presented. The tool that was developed to collect OT assets considers the specific characteristics of OT devices, the sensitivity of production environments, and the typically rudimentary starting situation of many real-world machine operators while being free of charge at the same time.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pöhler L., Schuba M., Höner T., Hack S. and Neugebauer G. (2024). An Open-Source Approach to OT Asset Management in Industrial Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP; ISBN 978-989-758-683-5, SciTePress, pages 128-136. DOI: 10.5220/0012362200003648

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp24,
author={Luca Pöhler and Marko Schuba and Tim Höner and Sacha Hack and Georg Neugebauer},
title={An Open-Source Approach to OT Asset Management in Industrial Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP},
year={2024},
pages={128-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012362200003648},
isbn={978-989-758-683-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP
TI - An Open-Source Approach to OT Asset Management in Industrial Environments
SN - 978-989-758-683-5
AU - Pöhler L.
AU - Schuba M.
AU - Höner T.
AU - Hack S.
AU - Neugebauer G.
PY - 2024
SP - 128
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0012362200003648
PB - SciTePress