IoT Security Issues and Possible Solution Using Blockchain Technology

Blockchain innovation has picked up expanding consideration from investigating and industry over the later a long time. It permits actualizing in its environment the smart-contracts innovation which is utilized to robotize and execute deals between clients. Blockchain is proposed nowadays as the unused specialized foundation for a few sorts of IT applications. Blockchain would aid avoid the duplication of information because it right now does with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Since of the numerous hundreds of thousands of servers putting away the Bitcoin record, it’s impossible to assault and alter. An aggressor would need to change the record of 51 percent of all the servers, at the precise same time. The budgetary fetched of such an assault would distantly exceed the potential picks up. The same cannot be said for our private data that lives on single servers possessed by Google and Amazon. In this paper, we outline major Blockchain technology that based as solutions for IOT security. We survey and categorize prevalent security issues with respect to IoT data privacy, in expansion to conventions utilized for organizing, communication, and administration. We diagram security necessities for IoT together with the existing scenarios for using blockchain in IoT applications.

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Towards the Integration of Blockchain and IoT for Security Challenges in IoT

Transforming Businesses With Bitcoin Mining and Blockchain Applications - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0186-3.ch003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 45-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K. Dinesh Kumar ◽

Venkata Rathnam T. ◽

Venkata Ramana R. ◽

M. Sudhakara ◽

Ravi Kumar Poluru

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Security Management ◽

Vital Role ◽

Management Systems ◽

Iot Security ◽

Communication Architecture ◽

Secure Systems ◽

Security Issues ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Iot Devices

Internet of things (IoT) technology plays a vital role in the current technologies because IoT develops a network by integrating different kinds of objects and sensors to create the communication among objects directly without human interaction. With the presence of internet of things technology in our daily comes smart thinking and various advantages. At the same time, secure systems have been a most important concern for the protection of information systems and networks. However, adopting traditional security management systems in the internet of things leads several issues due to the limited privacy and policies like privacy standards, protocol stacks, and authentication rules. Usually, IoT devices has limited network capacities, storage, and computing processors. So they are having more chances to attacks. Data security, privacy, and reliability are three main challenges in the IoT security domain. To address the solutions for the above issues, IoT technology has to provide advanced privacy and policies in this large incoming data source. Blockchain is one of the trending technologies in the privacy management to provide the security. So this chapter is focused on the blockchain technologies which can be able to solve several IoT security issues. This review mainly focused on the state-of-the-art IoT security issues and vulnerabilities by existing review works in the IoT security domains. The taxonomy is presented about security issues in the view of communication, architecture, and applications. Also presented are the challenges of IoT security management systems. The main aim of this chapter is to describe the importance of blockchain technology in IoT security systems. Finally, it highlights the future directions of blockchain technology roles in IoT systems, which can be helpful for further improvements.

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Security Challenges in Fog and IoT, Blockchain Technology and Cell Tree Solutions: A Review

Scalable Computing Practice and Experience ◽

10.12694/scpe.v21i3.1782 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 515-542

Author(s):

Neelam Saleem Khan ◽

Mohammad Ahsan Chishti

Keyword(s):

Cloud Model ◽

Fog Computing ◽

Future Internet ◽

Iot Security ◽

Security Issues ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Communication Paradigm ◽

Iot Devices ◽

Cloud Servers ◽

Work Done

As the IoT is moving out of its early stages, it is emerging as an area of future internet. The evolving communication paradigm among cloud servers, Fog nodes and IoT devices are establishing a multilevel communication infrastructure. Fog provides a platform for IoT along with other services like networking, storage and computing. With the tremendous expansion of IoT, security threats also arise. These security hazards cannot be addressed by mere dependence on cloud model. In this paper we present an overview of security landscape of Fog computing, challenges, and, existing solutions. We outline major authentication issues in IoT, map their existing solutions and further tabulate Fog and IoT security loopholes. Furthermore this paper presents Blockchain, a decentralized distributed technology as one of the solutions for authentication issues in IoT. We tried to discuss the strength of Blockchain technology, work done in this field, its adoption in COVID-19 fight and tabulate various challenges in Blockchain technology. At last we present the Cell Tree architecture as another solution to address some of the security issues in IoT, outlined its advantages over Blockchain technology and tabulated some future course to stir some attempts in this area.

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Enhancing IoT Security for Smart Energy Meter using Blockchain

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.f7410.038620 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 506-510

Keyword(s):

Data Security ◽

Third Parties ◽

Iot Security ◽

Security Issues ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Energy Meter ◽

Security Challenges ◽

User Data ◽

Iot Devices ◽

Day By Day

Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly in recent days and increasing of IoT devices day by day producing vast amount of data, to store this data security is a major challenge in IoT. To avoid these security challenges, blockchain is the perfect solution. With its security by design, immutable nature, transparent nature and encryption methodology blockchain will solve architectural issues of IoT. In these days, the energy meters in our homes are not able send the information to the cloud and man power also needed to update readings every month, and manually errors also taken place some times to avoid these, in the paper a smart energy meter is proposed, that will measure the power consumption and that readings will be stored in to the blockchain to secure the data from the fraudsters and also to make the payment without any third parties like banks, in the blockchain technology amount can be transferred from one to one without any third parties using crypto currencies like bitcoin, ether.., etc. The user will be able to check the bills in the blockchain and do the payments. By using the blockchain technology the user data will be more secure and the IoT security issues also solvable.

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Identity and Access Management Resilience against Intentional Risk for Blockchain-Based IOT Platforms

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10040378 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 378

Author(s):

Alberto Partida ◽

Regino Criado ◽

Miguel Romance

Keyword(s):

Security Requirements ◽

Access Management ◽

Iot Security ◽

Complex Network Theory ◽

Scale Free ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Technology Transfers ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

Market Capitalisation ◽

Security Incidents

Some Internet of Things (IoT) platforms use blockchain to transport data. The value proposition of IoT is the connection to the Internet of a myriad of devices that provide and exchange data to improve people’s lives and add value to industries. The blockchain technology transfers data and value in an immutable and decentralised fashion. Security, composed of both non-intentional and intentional risk management, is a fundamental design requirement for both IoT and blockchain. We study how blockchain answers some of the IoT security requirements with a focus on intentional risk. The review of a sample of security incidents impacting public blockchains confirm that identity and access management (IAM) is a key security requirement to build resilience against intentional risk. This fact is also applicable to IoT solutions built on a blockchain. We compare the two IoT platforms based on public permissionless distributed ledgers with the highest market capitalisation: IOTA, run on an alternative to a blockchain, which is a directed acyclic graph (DAG); and IoTeX, its contender, built on a blockchain. Our objective is to discover how we can create IAM resilience against intentional risk in these IoT platforms. For that, we turn to complex network theory: a tool to describe and compare systems with many participants. We conclude that IoTeX and possibly IOTA transaction networks are scale-free. As both platforms are vulnerable to attacks, they require resilience against intentional risk. In the case of IoTeX, DIoTA provides a resilient IAM solution. Furthermore, we suggest that resilience against intentional risk requires an IAM concept that transcends a single blockchain. Only with the interplay of edge and global ledgers can we obtain data integrity in a multi-vendor and multi-purpose IoT network.

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Block-Chain Technology -Security, Platforms

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b1431.0982s1119 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2S11) ◽

pp. 3512-3518

Keyword(s):

Video Games ◽

Great Influence ◽

Current Paper ◽

Protocol Stack ◽

Security Issues ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Smart Contract ◽

Block Chain ◽

Educational Applications

The current paper is focused on its security issues with its prospective applications for educational applications and explored how blockchain Technology can be used to solve some education problems.Blockchain Technology can be integrated into multiple areas like cryptocurrencies,smart contract ,Bank,Blockcahin with video games,finance,judiciary , commerce and IOT.Blockchain Technology has already changed peoples lifestyle in many areas due to its great influence. In this paper the Three types of Blockchain engineering 1.0,2.0,3.0 with its protocol stack layer working ,its advantages and applications are checked .Along with different platforms on which Blokchain is running with its features is highlighted and evolution phases in Blockchain .This paper aim is to test amenities of security,related to the Blockchain and need of innovation of Blockchain.

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Ensuring Improved Security in Medical Data Using ECC and Blockchain Technology with Edge Devices

Security and Communication Networks ◽

10.1155/2021/6966206 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Mary Subaja Christo ◽

V. Elizabeth Jesi ◽

Uma Priyadarsini ◽

V. Anbarasu ◽

Hridya Venugopal ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Data ◽

Security Measures ◽

Data Confidentiality ◽

Hospital Data ◽

Healthcare Data ◽

Security Issues ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Data Authentication ◽

Efficient Retrieval ◽

Lightweight Authentication

Hospital data management is one of the functional parts of operations to store and access healthcare data. Nowadays, protecting these from hacking is one of the most difficult tasks in the healthcare system. As the user’s data collected in the field of healthcare is very sensitive, adequate security measures have to be taken in this field to protect the networks. To maintain security, an effective encryption technology must be utilised. This paper focuses on implementing the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) technique, a lightweight authentication approach to share the data effectively. Many researches are in place to share the data wirelessly, among which this work uses Electronic Medical Card (EMC) to store the healthcare data. The work discusses two important data security issues: data authentication and data confidentiality. To ensure data authentication, the proposed system employs a secure mechanism to encrypt and decrypt the data with a 512-bit key. Data confidentiality is ensured by using the Blockchain ledger technique which allows ethical users to access the data. Finally, the encrypted data is stored on the edge device. The edge computing technology is used to store the medical reports within the edge network to access the data in a very fast manner. An authenticated user can decrypt the data and process the data at optimum speed. After processing, the updated data is stored in the Blockchain and in the cloud server. This proposed method ensures secure maintenance and efficient retrieval of medical data and reports.

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Internet of Things (IoT): Classification, Secured Architecture Based on Data Sensitivity, Security Issues and Their Countermeasures

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management ◽

10.1142/s0219649221400013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (Supp01) ◽

pp. 2140001

Author(s):

Bremnavas Ismail Mohideen ◽

Basem Assiri

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Pervasive Computing ◽

Architecture Design ◽

Iot Security ◽

Significant Development ◽

Security Issues ◽

Physical Resources ◽

Healthcare Monitoring ◽

Data Sensitivity

In recent decades, the communication of electronic equipment and physical resources is combined. Internet of Things (IoT) distributes things widely in the network. The IoT is Internet-based pervasive computing, which created significant development in the recent disposition of IoT infrastructures. The IoT infrastructures lead, manage and generate large amounts of data across various applications including environmental, transportation and healthcare monitoring. In this regard, there are salient uncertainties about the use of security concepts that are frequently measured as a major concern of IoT distributed architecture design. This paper mainly focuses on the classification of IoT, novel architecture considering the sensitivity of data, IoT security layers, review of security issues and acclaimed countermeasures.

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