  Following the recent Internet of Things-induced trends on digitization in
general, industrial applications will further evolve as well. With a focus on
the domains of manufacturing and production, the Internet of Production pursues
the vision of a digitized, globally interconnected, yet secure environment by
establishing a distributed knowledge base. Background. As part of our
collaborative research of advancing the scope of industrial applications
through cybersecurity and privacy, we identified a set of common challenges and
pitfalls that surface in such applied interdisciplinary collaborations. Aim.
Our goal with this paper is to support researchers in the emerging field of
cybersecurity in industrial settings by formalizing our experiences as
reference for other research efforts, in industry and academia alike. Method.
Based on our experience, we derived a process cycle of performing such
interdisciplinary research, from the initial idea to the eventual dissemination
and paper writing. This presented methodology strives to successfully bootstrap
further research and to encourage further work in this emerging area. Results.
Apart from our newly proposed process cycle, we report on our experiences and
conduct a case study applying this methodology, raising awareness for
challenges in cybersecurity research for industrial applications. We further
detail the interplay between our process cycle and the data lifecycle in
applied research data management. Finally, we augment our discussion with an
industrial as well as an academic view on this research area and highlight that
both areas still have to overcome significant challenges to sustainably and
securely advance industrial applications. Conclusions. With our proposed
process cycle for interdisciplinary research in the intersection of
cybersecurity and industrial application, we provide a foundation for further
research.
