THE PERFORMANCE OF OPC-UA SECURITY MODEL AT FIELD DEVICE LEVEL

Olli Post, Jari Seppälä, Hannu Koivisto

2009

Abstract

This paper discusses the performance of OPC UA security model at field device level. Process networks have traditionally been isolated networks but today there is interest to integrate process networks to manufacture and office network. Remote management of field devices via Internet is also gaining interest. This requires implementation of TCP/IP in field devices. However, this causes process networks not being isolated anymore and attention must be paid to the security of process networks. OPC UA is a specification for data transfer in automation systems that can be used to integrate information, horizontally and vertically. Security has also been considered in OPC UA but security measures implemented by OPC UA are too heavy to be uses in field devices. Thus, implementing security profile for authentication without encryption in OPC UA or running OPC UA on IPSec without its own security profile is proposed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Post O., Seppälä J. and Koivisto H. (2009). THE PERFORMANCE OF OPC-UA SECURITY MODEL AT FIELD DEVICE LEVEL . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-674-000-9, pages 337-341. DOI: 10.5220/0002249103370341

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco09,
author={Olli Post and Jari Seppälä and Hannu Koivisto},
title={THE PERFORMANCE OF OPC-UA SECURITY MODEL AT FIELD DEVICE LEVEL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2009},
pages={337-341},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002249103370341},
isbn={978-989-674-000-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - THE PERFORMANCE OF OPC-UA SECURITY MODEL AT FIELD DEVICE LEVEL
SN - 978-989-674-000-9
AU - Post O.
AU - Seppälä J.
AU - Koivisto H.
PY - 2009
SP - 337
EP - 341
DO - 10.5220/0002249103370341