Contents I. Introduction
Industry 4.0 is a manufacturing revolution that integrates disruptive technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing into the factory's heart. Several revolutions have occurred in the industrial sector [1], [2]. The initial stage was mechanisation. In a subsequent step, mass production and electricity were introduced. The third occurred in the 1970 s when automation along with IT equipment was introduced via digitalization into the factories. The Industry 4.0 paradigm, also known as the “Industrial Internet of Things or Industrial Internet”, as defined by the German government in 2011 as the fourth phase in the evolution of traditional factories. It made them more flexible and responsive to ever-changing production settings. In terms of technology, industry 4.0 aspires to connect different domains i.e., agricultural holdings and manufacturing plants to the Internet in order to boost production quantity and efficiency. This hyperconnectivity will enable the collection of large amounts of data from “the value chain” for a variety of purposes, including, “the data exchange between factory, supplier, and client devices”, “data acquisition and storage for both traceability and digital performance management”, “data processing for predictive maintenance or remote monitoring to reduce machine downtime”, and “improvement of both service levels and product quality” [2]. Firms which intend to employ the industry 4.0 paradigm must include cyber security schemes in their design approach due to the integration of heterogeneous equipment into the “industrial cyber-physical environment.” Despite the improvements in manufacturing plant efficiency brought on by Industry 4.0, cyber security breaches would have a significant impact on the day-to-day activities of the business model which further results in a loss of competitiveness. The sensitive data may be disclosed, damaged or deleted by the potential adversary (i.e., attackers/hackers) [3]. Due to the recent cyber security breaches identified in numerous industrial companies throughout the world, the inclusion of security-related mechanisms become essential in the industry 4.0 frameworks [1]. The industry 4.0 communication environment can be easily attacked by the various attacker through various attacks, like, malware injection, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, replay, man-in-the-middle, impersonation, credentials guessing, the unauthorised session key computation, data update, data leakage and many more [4], [5]. Therefore, it is important to provide some security mechanisms to protect the data and exchanged messages in Industry 4.0. There research motivation of the proposed ACKS-IA is given below.
