Secure monitoring system for industrial internet of things using searchable encryption, access control and machine learning

This thesis is an alternative format submission comprising a set of publications and a comprehensive literature review, an introduction, and a conclusion. Continuous compliance with data protection legislation on many levels in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a significant challenge. Automated continuous compliance should also consider adaptable security compliance management for multiple users. The IIoT should automate compliance with corporate rules, regulations, and regulatory frameworks for industrial applications. Thus, this thesis aims to improve continuous compliance by introducing an edge-server architecture which incorporates searchable encryption with multi-authority access to provide access to useful data for various stakeholders in the compliance domain. In this thesis, we propose an edge lightweight searchable attribute-based encryption system (ELSA). The ELSA system leverages cloud-edge architecture to improve search time beyond a previous state-ofthe-art encryption solution. The main contributions of the first paper are as follows. First, we npresent an untrusted cloud and trusted edge architecture that processes data efficiently and optimises decision-making in the IIoT context. Second, we enhanced the search performance over the current state-of-the-art (LSABE-MA) regarding order of magnitude. We achieved this enhancement by storing keywords only on the trusted edge server and introducing a query optimiser to achieve better-than-linear search performance. The query optimiser uses k-means clustering to improve the efficiency of range queries, removing the need for a linear search. As a result, we achieved higher performance without sacrificing result accuracy. In the second paper, we extended ELSA to illustrate the correlation between the number of keywords and ELSA performance. This extension supports annotating records with multiple keywords in trapdoor and record storage and enables the record to be returned with single keyword queries