Patent ID: 11960588
Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A method for authenticating a physical or logical asset of a process plant, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a security service executing via a container on a compute node within a software defined process control system (SDCS), a request from the physical or logical asset of the process plant to access another service executing via a container on a compute node within the SDCS, the request including a certificate, wherein the physical or logical asset of the process plant is utilized during run-time of the process plant to control at least a portion of the industrial process;
verifying, by an authentication service executing via a container on a compute node of the SDCS, authenticity of the physical or logical asset based on the certificate; and
providing, by the security service, access to the other service in response to verifying authenticity of the physical or logical asset.