IOT Security Threats and Block Chain based Solutions

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the important technologies that has taken the attention of researchers. It is the interconnection of things connected with each other and to also with humans, to achieve some goals. In future IoT is expected to be effortlessly integrated into our environment and human will be solely dependent on this technology for comfort and easy life style. Any security concern of the system will directly affect human life. So security and privacy of this technology is primarily important issue to resolve. In this paper, we discuss the threats and vulnerabilities to the security of IoT devices in different domains, different layers, its deployment architecture and provides possible Block chain solution to overcome these issues. The paper also analyzes how the Block chain technology can be used to provide security and privacy in IoT. : The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the important technologies that has taken the attention of researchers. It is the interconnection of things connected with each other and to also with humans, to achieve some goals. In future IoT is expected to be effortlessly integrated into our environment and human will be solely dependent on this technology for comfort and easy life style. Any security concern of the system will directly affect human life. So security and privacy of this technology is primarily important issue to resolve. In this paper, we discuss the threats and vulnerabilities to the security of IoT devices in different domains, different layers, its deployment architecture and provides possible Block chain solution to overcome these issues. The paper also analyzes how the Block chain technology can be used to provide security and privacy in IoT.

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Privacy and Security Challenges in the Internet of Things

Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch051 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 749-762

Author(s):

Fernando Almeida ◽

Justino Lourenço

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

Security Challenges ◽

Iot Devices ◽

Privacy Risks ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Of Iot

Internet of things (IoT) is increasingly present in our lives. As a consequence of connecting devices, IoT can make people's lives more convenient and comfortable. However, despite unquestionable benefits offered by IoT, there is still a great deal of concern from users and companies about the security and privacy of their data. In this sense, this study conducts a qualitative study based on three case studies of companies in the IoT field, which aims to characterize how these IoT companies look at the security and privacy challenges posed by IoT. The findings allowed the authors to identify the main challenges faced by IoT companies during the past years, the main privacy risks exposed by IoT devices, and the countermeasures that companies and users can adopt to increase the security of IoT.

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A survey on secured internet of things architecture

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i2.7.10596 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2.7) ◽

pp. 274 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ms U. Harita ◽

K V.DayaSagar

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Future Internet ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Computing Systems ◽

Heterogeneous Devices ◽

Iot Applications ◽

Iot Devices ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Of Iot

The Internet of Things (IoT) introduces an inventive and perceptive of a future Internet where users, computing systems, and everyday items owning sensing and actuating abilities cooperate with unique comfort and financial advantages. Many heterogeneous devices get connected and contribute to the IoT and are known as things.Internet of Things (IoT) enables these things to correspond, compute and make decisions on the network. In such a heterogeneous environment, every user of IoT will have a unique purpose to be served in the form of communication and computation. There is a threat that a malicious user can demolish the security and privacy of the network. Hence any application in the environment of IoT is prone to various attacks and threats. At this point, security becomes a high priority in IoT. To ensure security, care must be taken to guarantee confidentiality, authenticity, data integrity and non-repudiation. In this paperaddress various conventional techniques for providing security of IoT devices and present analysis of existing solutions for IoT. Firstly, as security will be a fundamental allowing thing of most IoT applications, mechanisms must also be designed to defend communications enabled by such technologies. Later, we identify some suitable security algorithms.

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Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy

Powering the Internet of Things With 5G Networks - Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2799-2.ch010 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 247-267

Author(s):

Muawya N. Al Dalaien ◽

Ameur Bensefia ◽

Salam A. Hoshang ◽

Abdul Rahman A. Bathaqili

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy Concern ◽

Computing Systems ◽

Iot Security ◽

Privacy Issues ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Concern ◽

The Way

In recent years the Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly become a revolutionary technological invention causing significant changes to the way both corporate computing systems, and even household gadgets and appliances, are designed and manufactured. The aim of this chapter is to highlight the security and privacy issues that may affect the evolution of IoT technology. The privacy issues are discussed from customer perspectives: first, the IoT privacy concern where the privacy debates on IoT and the IoT privacy that reflected from users' perspective based on the examination of previous researches results. In addition, the different architectures for IoT are discussed. Finally, the chapter discusses the IoT security concern by collecting, analyzing and presenting the major IoT security concerns in the literature as well as providing some potential solutions to these concerns.

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A Survey of Authentication Schemes in the Internet of Things

International Journal of Smart Security Technologies ◽

10.4018/ijsst.2019010102 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 15-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yasmine Labiod ◽

Abdelaziz Amara Korba ◽

Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Security Requirements ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

Depth Study ◽

Authentication Schemes ◽

Iot Devices ◽

Privacy Issues ◽

The Internet Of Things

In the recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely deployed in different daily life aspects such as home automation, electronic health, the electric grid, etc. Nevertheless, the IoT paradigm raises major security and privacy issues. To secure the IoT devices, many research works have been conducted to counter those issues and discover a better way to remove those risks, or at least reduce their effects on the user's privacy and security requirements. This article mainly focuses on a critical review of the recent authentication techniques for IoT devices. First, this research presents a taxonomy of the current cryptography-based authentication schemes for IoT. In addition, this is followed by a discussion of the limitations, advantages, objectives, and attacks supported of current cryptography-based authentication schemes. Finally, the authors make in-depth study on the most relevant authentication schemes for IoT in the context of users, devices, and architecture that are needed to secure IoT environments and that are needed for improving IoT security and items to be addressed in the future.

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Investigating the factors affecting the internet of things (IOT) adoption model -an exploratory study in Egypt

The Business and Management Review ◽

10.24052/bmr/v11nu02/art-12 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (02) ◽

pp. 97-108

Author(s):

Ghada Zaky ◽

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Prof. Ayman Shawky ◽

Prof. Mohamed A. Ragheb ◽

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Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy Concern ◽

Critical Question ◽

Iot Applications ◽

Adoption Model ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Concern

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the factors that affect developing countries especially Egyptian users to adopt IOT Applications/devices, and to what extent those variables affect the overall attitude towards, behavioral intentions and actual usage of IOT applications/devices. Moreover, to develop an extended adoption model by integrating the security concern and privacy concern in UTAUT2 model. Design/Methodology: a descriptive quantitative approach was adopted, and a comprehensive research model was adapted from literature and then tested via an online questionnaire. Results/Findings: The findings revealed that Effort Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions and Security Concern all have a significant positive effect on the overall intention towards using IOT applications/devices in Egypt. Theoretical and practical implications: The Internet of Things (IOT) has emerged as an innovative computing technology destined to optimize business operations and create new products and services. IOT enable the devices to communicate and integrate with one another to collect, exchange, and make data accessible through the Internet. It is projected that by 2025, over 50 billion devices will be connected to the IOT network, reaching a market value of up to $11 trillion. This study adapted the Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) as the theoretical framework and its findings contribute to the literature by adding security and privacy concerns as new predictor variables. This contributes theoretically to the current literature by providing meaningful insights into the main factors that affect using IOT Applications/Devices in developing countries specially Egypt. This study’s conceptual effort provided an overall overview of how IOT users arrive at choosing (or not choosing) to use IOT applications/devices. Additionally, the analytic effort of this study provided a holistic assessment of the role of each variable. One critical question in this case is whether industrial leaders should assign an equal number of resources to each variable or not. By assessing the significance of each variable, the researcher attempted to clarify the comparative importance of each variable in forecasting purchase intentions and decisions to use IOT applications/devices.

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Smart Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

Handbook of Research on Implementation and Deployment of IoT Projects in Smart Cities - Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9199-3.ch003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 33-42

Author(s):

Rahul Verma

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

Smart Device ◽

The Internet ◽

Iot Applications ◽

Individual Concepts ◽

The World ◽

Iot Devices ◽

The Internet Of Things

The internet of things (IoT) is the new buzzword in technological corridors with most technology companies announcing a smart device of sorts that runs on internet of things (IoT). Cities around the world are getting “smarter” every day through the implementation of internet of things (IoT) devices. Cities around the world are implementing individual concepts on their way to becoming smart. The services are automated and integrated end to end using internet of things (IoT) devices. The chapter presents an array of internet of things (IoT) applications. Also, cyber physical systems are becoming more vulnerable since the internet of things (IoT) attacks are common and threatening the security and privacy of such systems. The main aim of this chapter is to bring more research in the application aspects of smart internet of things (IoT).

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A Study of Threats, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures: An IoT Perspective

Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities ◽

10.34293/sijash.v8i4.3583 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 39-45

Author(s):

Yash Choudhary ◽

B Umamaheswari ◽

Vijeta Kumawat

Keyword(s):

Remote Control ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

The Internet ◽

Primary Concern ◽

Security Measures ◽

Security Issues ◽

Iot Devices ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Of Iot

IoT or the Internet of things refers to all the physical devices connected to the internet. IoT consists of computing devices that are web-enabled and have the capability of sensing, collecting, and sending data. IoT provides the ability to remote control appliances and has many more applications. Since IoT is becoming a big part of society, it is necessary to ensure that these devices provide adequate security measures. This paper discusses various security issues in IoT systems like threats, vulnerabilities and some countermeasures which can be used to provide some security. Developing a secure device is now more important than ever, as with the increase in digitization, much of a user’s data is available on these devices. Securing data is a primary concern in any system, as internet-enabled devices are easier to hack. The idea of this paper is to spread awareness and improve the security of IoT devices.

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Multi-Tier Stack of Block Chain with Proxy Re-Encryption Method Scheme on the Internet of Things Platform

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology ◽

10.1145/3421508 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Bharat S. Rawal ◽

Poongodi M. ◽

Gunasekaran Manogaran ◽

Mounir Hamdi

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Smart Grids ◽

Information Storage ◽

Third Party ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Smart Contracts ◽

Block Chain ◽

Encryption Method ◽

The Internet Of Things

Block chain provides an innovative solution to information storage, transaction execution, security, and trust building in an open environment. The block chain is technological progress for cyber security and cryptography, with efficiency-related cases varying in smart grids, smart contracts, over the IoT, etc. The movement to exchange data on a server has massively increased with the introduction of the Internet of Things. Hence, in this research, Splitting of proxy re-encryption method (Split-PRE) has been suggested based on the IoT to improve security and privacy in a private block chain. This study proposes a block chain-based proxy re-encryption program to resolve both the trust and scalability problems and to simplify the transactions. After encryption, the system saves the Internet of Things data in a distributed cloud. The framework offers dynamic, smart contracts between the sensor and the device user without the intervention of a trustworthy third party to exchange the captured IoT data. It uses an efficient proxy re-encryption system, which provides the owner and the person existing in the smart contract to see the data. The experimental outcomes show that the proposed approach enhances the efficiency, security, privacy, and feasibility of the system when compared to other existing methods.

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Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy

Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 192-207

Author(s):

Muawya N. Al Dalaien ◽

Ameur Bensefia ◽

Salam A. Hoshang ◽

Abdul Rahman A. Bathaqili

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy Concern ◽

Computing Systems ◽

Iot Security ◽

Privacy Issues ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Concern ◽

The Way

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Side-Channel Attacks in the Internet of Things

Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing - Solutions for Cyber-Physical Systems Ubiquity ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2845-6.ch013 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 325-357 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andreas Zankl ◽

Hermann Seuschek ◽

Gorka Irazoqui ◽

Berk Gulmezoglu

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Physical World ◽

The Internet ◽

Side Channel ◽

Sensitive Information ◽

Side Channel Attacks ◽

Subsequent Discussion ◽

Iot Devices ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Security Of Iot

The Internet of Things (IoT) rapidly closes the gap between the virtual and the physical world. As more and more information is processed through this expanding network, the security of IoT devices and backend services is increasingly important. Yet, side-channel attacks pose a significant threat to systems in practice, as the microarchitectures of processors, their power consumption, and electromagnetic emanation reveal sensitive information to adversaries. This chapter provides an extensive overview of previous attack literature. It illustrates that microarchitectural attacks can compromise the entire IoT ecosystem: from devices in the field to servers in the backend. A subsequent discussion illustrates that many of today's security mechanisms integrated in modern processors are in fact vulnerable to the previously outlined attacks. In conclusion to these observations, new countermeasures are needed that effectively defend against both microarchitectural and power/EM based side-channel attacks.

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