公开(公告)号：US20210377018A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US16888063

申请日：2020-05-29

Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

Inventor： Jeremy Lawrence ,  Jason M. Hollern ,  Bradley Geddes ,  Michael L. Thow ,  Justin C. Thibault

IPC: H04L9/08 ,  G05B19/418 ,  H04L9/32

Abstract: A system and method for secure remote access to an industrial control system using hardware based authentication is provided, comprising secure user authentication, secure interactive remote access or secure machine-to-machine remote access or communication, and remote access services. Secure user authentication comprises two-factor authentication based on smart cards, and secure interactive remote access via a managed remote-access appliance comprises a virtual machine and software that can only be used with a smart card credential.