Abstract-In Information-Centric Internet of Things (I-CIoT), IoT data can be cached throughout a network for close data copy retrievals. Such a distributed data caching en-vironment, however, poses a challenge to flexible authorization in the network. To address this challenge, Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) has been identified as a promising approach. However in the existing CP-ABE scheme, publishers need to retrieve attributes from a centralized server for encrypting data, which leads to high communication overhead. To solve this problem, we incorporate CP-ABE and propose a novel Distributed Publisher-driven secure Data sharing for ICIoT (DPD-ICIoT) to enable only authorized users to retrieve IoT data from distributed cache. In DPDICIoT, newly introduced Attribute Manifest (AM) is cached in the network, through which publishers can retrieve the attributes from nearby copy holders instead of a centralized attribute server. In addition, a key chain mechanism is utilized for efficient cryptographic operations, and an Automatic Attribute Self-update Mechanism (AASM) is proposed to enable fast updates of attributes without querying centralized servers. According to the performance evaluation, DPD-ICIoT achieves lower bandwidth cost compared to the existing CP-ABE scheme.