Addressing Industry 4.0 Security by Software-Defined Networking

Preceded by three industrial evolutions with the virtue of innovation in basic technologies such as mechanics (first evolution, beginning in the 1780s), electricity (second evolution, beginning from the 1870s), and electronics and computation (third evolution, starting from the 1970s), the vision for the fourth industrial evolution (in German called Industrie 4.0) has been started by the German government in 2011 [1]