scholarly journals Advanced Security Model for Internet of Things Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3387-3392
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Internet Of Things Environment ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Security Checks

IoT has become one of the most prominent used industry which is been intensively used in various applications across the globe. This usage has also made it more vulnerable to numerous attacks from within and outside the industry. Though this remains as one of the most predominant challenges in almost all of the industries, most of the organizations fail to allocate security budgets in order to secure their sub-networks from being misused and attacked. One of the most important aspects of this drawback is the unawareness of various upcoming IoT devices and infrastructures that are not technically sound enough to handle and meet the challenges caused by the various attacking methods. Implementation of highly secure IoT based infrastructure could basically produce various other benefits that include obtaining greater revenues from new inculcated methods and models while minimizing the operational costs by making use of the various optimized processes. This, in turn, leads to various meaningful and accurate data with a better knowledge of user experience. In order to develop such an IoT infrastructure, all the organizations have to mandatory build built-in security checks in each and every level of the applications being used by them. The paper presents a new design model that is used for securing all the devices from various malicious attacks. The paper also compares the newly designed model with the existing model and has proved the betterment of the security level that is been achieved.

scholarly journals Practical Cross-Layer Radio Frequency-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4034
Author(s):  
Arie Haenel ◽  
Yoram Haddad ◽  
Maryline Laurent ◽  
Zonghua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Cross Layer ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
Iot Devices

The Internet of Things world is in need of practical solutions for its security. Existing security mechanisms for IoT are mostly not implemented due to complexity, budget, and energy-saving issues. This is especially true for IoT devices that are battery powered, and they should be cost effective to be deployed extensively in the field. In this work, we propose a new cross-layer approach combining existing authentication protocols and existing Physical Layer Radio Frequency Fingerprinting technologies to provide hybrid authentication mechanisms that are practically proved efficient in the field. Even though several Radio Frequency Fingerprinting methods have been proposed so far, as a support for multi-factor authentication or even on their own, practical solutions are still a challenge. The accuracy results achieved with even the best systems using expensive equipment are still not sufficient on real-life systems. Our approach proposes a hybrid protocol that can save energy and computation time on the IoT devices side, proportionally to the accuracy of the Radio Frequency Fingerprinting used, which has a measurable benefit while keeping an acceptable security level. We implemented a full system operating in real time and achieved an accuracy of 99.8% for the additional cost of energy, leading to a decrease of only ~20% in battery life.

scholarly journals Complex security problems of the internet of things

2019 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 07014
Author(s):  
Alexander Shiler ◽  
Elizaveta Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Constant Increase ◽  
Internet Market ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Internet Of Things

At present, the Internet market of things is constantly expanding; it has covered almost all the most important areas: transport, housing and communal services, industry, agriculture, telecommunications and information technology. In connection with the constant increase in the number of attacks on IoT-devices, the issue of standardization of this technology is quite acute. The features of the of existing solutions and the new proposed Russian NB-Fi standard for IoT are presented in this article from the point of view of information security.

scholarly journals ParlAmI: A Multimodal Approach for Programming Intelligent Environments

Technologies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evropi Stefanidi ◽  
Michalis Foukarakis ◽  
Dimitrios Arampatzis ◽  
Maria Korozi ◽  
Asterios Leonidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Intelligent Environments ◽  
Intelligent Environment ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agent ◽  
Intelligent Home ◽  
Iot Devices

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services and their integration in intelligent environments creates the need for a simple yet effective way of controlling and communicating with them. Towards such a direction, this work presents ParlAmI, a conversational framework featuring a multimodal chatbot that permits users to create simple “if-then” rules to define the behavior of an intelligent environment. ParlAmI delivers a disembodied conversational agent in the form of a messaging application named MAI, and an embodied conversational agent named nAoMI employing the programmable humanoid robot NAO. This paper describes the requirements and architecture of ParlAmI, the infrastructure of the “Intelligent Home” in which ParlAmI is deployed, the characteristics and functionality of both MAI and nAoMI, and finally presents the findings of a user experience evaluation that was conducted with the participation of sixteen users.

Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-258
Author(s):  
Shashwat Pathak ◽  
Shreyans Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Almost All

The recent decade has seen considerable changes in the way the technology interacts with human lives and almost all the aspects of life be it personal or professional has been touched by technology. Many smart devices have also started playing a vital role in many fields and domains and the internet of things (IoT) has been the harbinger of the advent of IoT devices. IoT devices have proven to be monumental in imparting ‘smartness' in the otherwise static machines. The ability of the devices to interact and transfer the data to the internet and ultimately to the end-user has revolutionized the technological world and has brought many seemingly disparate fields in the technological purview. Out of the many fields where IoT has started gaining momentum, one of the most important ones is the healthcare sector. Many wearable smart devices have been developed over time capable to transmit real-time data to hospitals and doctors. It is essential for tracking the progress of the critically ill patients and has opened the horizon for attending patients remotely using these smart devices.

scholarly journals PUF Based Authentication Protocol for IoT

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 352 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Braeken
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Key Agreement ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Alternative Scheme ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Authentication Server ◽  
Random Patterns ◽  
Iot Devices

Key agreement between two constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices that have not met each other is an essential feature to provide in order to establish trust among its users. Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) on a device represent a low cost primitive exploiting the unique random patterns in the device and have been already applied in a multitude of applications for secure key generation and key agreement in order to avoid an attacker to take over the identity of a tampered device, whose key material has been extracted. This paper shows that the key agreement scheme of a recently proposed PUF based protocol, presented by Chatterjee et al., for Internet of Things (IoT) is vulnerable for man-in-the-middle, impersonation, and replay attacks in the Yao–Dolev security model. We propose an alternative scheme, which is able to solve these issues and can provide in addition a more efficient key agreement and subsequently a communication phase between two IoT devices connected to the same authentication server. The scheme also offers identity based authentication and repudiation, when only using elliptic curve multiplications and additions, instead of the compute intensive pairing operations.

scholarly journals Hierarchical Multi-Blockchain Architecture for Scalable Internet of Things Environment

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yustus Eko Oktian ◽  
Sang-Gon Lee ◽  
Hoon Jae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Byzantine Fault Tolerance ◽  
The Core ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Internet Of Things Environment ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Scalable Internet

Many researchers challenge the possibility of using blockchain and smart contracts to disrupt the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture because of their security and decentralization guarantees. However, the state-of-the-art blockchain architecture is not scalable enough to satisfy the requirements of massive data traffics in the IoT environment. The main reason for this issue is one needs to choose the consensus trade-off between either coping with a high throughput or a high number of nodes. Consequently, this issue prevents the applicability of blockchain for IoT use cases. In this paper, we propose a scalable two-tiered hierarchical blockchain architecture for IoT. The first tier is a Core Engine, which is based on a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) consensus to cope with a high throughput, that supervises the underlying subordinate engines (sub-engines) as its second tier. This second tier comprises of the Payment, Compute, and Storage Engine, respectively. We can deploy multiple instances of these sub-engines as many as we need and as local as possible near to the IoT domains, where IoT devices reside, to cope with a high number of nodes. Furthermore, to further extend the scalability of the proposed architecture, we also provide additional scalability features on the Core Engine such as request aggregation, request prioritization, as well as sub-engine parallelism. We implement all of our engines and expose them to IoT applications through the Engine APIs. With these APIs, developers can build and run IoT applications in our architecture. Our evaluation results show that our proposed features on the Core Engine can indeed enhance the overall performance of our architecture. Moreover, based on our proof-of-concept IoT car rental application, we also show that the interoperability between sub-engines through the Core Engine is possible, even when the particular sub-engine is under sub-engine parallelism.

scholarly journals Cybersecurity Model Based on Hardening for Secure Internet of Things Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3260
Author(s):  
Aarón Echeverría ◽  
Cristhian Cevallos ◽  
Ivan Ortiz-Garces ◽  
Roberto O. Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Risk Matrix ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Attack Surface ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Meta Analyses

The inclusion of Internet of Things (IoT) for building smart cities, smart health, smart grids, and other smart concepts has driven data-driven decision making by managers and automation in each domain. However, the hyper-connectivity generated by IoT networks coupled with limited default security in IoT devices increases security risks that can jeopardize the operations of cities, hospitals, and organizations. Strengthening the security aspects of IoT devices prior to their use in different systems can contribute to minimize the attack surface. This study aimed to model a sequence of seven steps to minimize the attack surface by executing hardening processes. Conducted a systematic literature review using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) techniques. In this way, we were able to define a proposed methodology to evaluate the security level of an IoT solution by means of a checklist that considers the security aspects in the three layers of the IoT architecture. A risk matrix adapted to IoT is established to evaluate the attack surface. Finally, a process of hardening and vulnerability analysis is proposed to reduce the attack surface and improve the security level of the IoT solution.

Distributed Security Model for Remote Healthcare (DSM-RH) Services in Internet of Things Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
O. Cyril Mathew ◽  
R. Dhanapal ◽  
P. Visalakshi ◽  
K. G. Parthiban ◽  
S. Karthik
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Distributed Security ◽  
Internet Of Things Environment ◽  
Remote Healthcare

Enhancing Security in Internet of Things Environment by Developing an Authentication Mechanism using COAP Protocol

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samah Mohammed S ALhusayni ◽  
Wael Ali Alosaimi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Information Assurance ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Internet Of Things Environment ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Secure Authentication ◽  
Biometric Features

Internet of Things (IoT) has a huge attention recently due to its new emergence, benefits, and contribution to improving the quality of human lives. Securing IoT poses an open area of research, as it is the base of allowing people to use the technology and embrace this development in their daily activities. Authentication is one of the influencing security element of Information Assurance (IA), which includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability, non repudiation, and authentication. Therefore, there is a need to enhance security in the current authentication mechanisms. In this report, some of the authentication mechanisms proposed in recent years have been presented and reviewed. Specifically, the study focuses on enhancement of security in CoAP protocol due to its relevance to the characteristics of IoT devices and its need to enhance its security by using the symmetric key with biometric features in the authentication. This study will help in providing secure authentication technology for IoT data, device, and users.

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