A Taxonomy of Security Issues in Industrial Internet-of-Things: Scoping Review for Existing Solutions, Future Implications, and Research Challenges

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoTs) are the extensions of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and have paved the way towards the industry revolution 4.0. IIoT accelerates the industry automation of internal and external working process including transport, manufacturing, and marketing units with a number of connected devices. Being the extension of IoT, it inherits the insecurities of the technology; however, this sensor-configured infrastructure of IIoT needs some extra effort to customize the existing security solutions. In spite of the reconstructions of security models, the scope of improved developments is open to detect unknown attacks. The present study helps the researchers to understand the cause for intrusion by classifying and comparing various attacks of each IIoT layers. The main focus of this survey is to analyze various security issues faced by IIoT and provide a comparative analysis on the available solutions to enhance the industrial IoTs’ protection systems. This study also notifies some open research problems for academia, technologists, and researchers to flourish the IIoT domain and its security aspects.