Chinese Academy of Sciences

Bowen Zhang

Haibin Yu

Peng Zeng

Jianming Zhao

Tianyu Wang

Xianda Liu

Chunyu Chen

The present invention relates to a network guard unit for an industrial embedded system and a guard method. The specific method is to form the network guard unit (NGU) through security technologies, such as integrated access control, identity authentication and communication data encryption, to provide active guard for a site control device. The NGU comprises an access control module, an identity authentication module, a data encryption module, a key negotiation module and a PCIE communication module, and supports the communication modes of dual network cards and PCIE bus. The present invention builds a secure and trusted operating environment for industrial control systems in combination with an active guard technical means in the field of information security on the basis of ensuring the correctness and the feasibility of security of various terminal devices in the industrial control systems.

Network guard unit for industrial embedded system and guard method

The present invention relates to a security processing unit of PLC and a bus arbitration method thereof, to provide PLC with an active defense means to build a PLC hardware and software security layer. On a hardware security layer, a part of hardware processing mechanism is added to support trusted measurement, encryption algorithms and signature algorithms, and a virtual isolation technology is used; and on a software security layer, transparent encryption and decryption, integrity verification, backup recovery and virtual isolation security mechanism are provided. The security processing aspect is improved to achieve the purpose of security and reliability. The present invention can correctly establish a trusted environment of PLC to ensure that PLC is guided by a strictly verified path. A new star type trusted structure is designed to reduce loss during information transmission and increase information transmission efficiency.

Security processing unit of PLC and bus arbitration method thereof

The present invention discloses a method for trusted booting of PLC based on a measurement mechanism, comprising the following steps: a step of initializing self firmware verification; a step of reading and computing firmware information about a PLC; a step of checking and storing one by one; and a step of verifying at the operation start stage. In the method of the present invention, a chip with a trusted function is used as a core of hardware computation. The PLC extends a Flash bus for loading by hardware of the method of the present invention. The hardware of the method of the present invention recognizes necessary boot information, verifies the integrity of the boot loader necessary for the PLC system through the integrity check method and ensures that the booted PLC system is in a trusted state. On the basis of ensuring validity and feasibility for the safety of a terminal device, the present invention can build a safe and trusted industrial control system operating environment.

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