Development of Laboratory Exercise “Cybersecurity of IIoT Protocols”
Aleksandar Valentinov Hristov · 2025
The aim of the paper is to present one of the laboratory exercises for students in the Technical University of Sofia. This lab explores the possibilities for conducting man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in industrial networks when using one of the most widely spread protocols - Modbus and then explores the capabilities for protecting from MITM attacks by changing the communication protocol from Modbus to Secure Modbus.