Decentralized Approach to Secure IoT based Networks using Blockchain Technology

Waheed, Urooj; Khan, M. Sadiq Ali; Awan, Samia Masood; Khan, Mohammed; Mansoor, Yusra

doi:10.17993/3ctecno.2019.specialissue2.182-205

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“…Home appliances, power plants, vehicles, and healthcare, we are aiming to automate the entire metropolitan infrastructure [33]. With all our systems connected with the IoT, the most crucial concern is if we can trust the current IoT authentication and access control infrastructure after connecting it to millions of "things" [34]. The current systems are not trustworthy enough to have our lives depend on them.…”

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A Blockchain-Inspired Attribute-Based Zero-Trust Access Control Model for IoT

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The connected or smart environment is the integration of smart devices (sensors, IoT devices, or actuator) into the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, in which a large number of devices are connected, monitoring the physical environment and processes and transmitting into the centralized database for advanced analytics and analysis. This integrated and connected setup allows greater levels of automation of smart systems than is possible with just the Internet. While delivering services to the different processes and application within connected smart systems, these IoT devices perform an impeccably large number of device-to-device communications that allow them to access the selected subsets of device information and data. The sensitive and private nature of these data renders the smart infrastructure vulnerable to copious attacks which threat agents exploit for cyberattacks which not only affect critical services but probably bring threat to people’s lives. Hence, advanced measures need to be taken for securing smart environments, such as dynamic access control, advanced network screening, and monitoring behavioural anomalies. In this paper, we have discussed the essential cyberthreats and vulnerabilities in smart environments and proposed ZAIB (Zero-Trust and ABAC for IoT using Blockchain), a novel secure framework that monitors and facilitates device-to-device communications with different levels of access-controlled mechanisms based on environmental parameters and device behaviour. It is protected by zero-trust architecture and provides dynamic behavioural analysis of IoT devices by calculating device trust levels for each request. ZAIB enforces variable policies specifically generated for each scenario by using attribute-based access control (ABAC). We have used blockchain to ensure anonymous device and user registrations and immutable activity logs. All the attributes, trust level histories, and data generated by IoT devices are protected using IPFS. Finally, a security evaluation shows that ZAIB satisfies the needs of active defence and end-to-end security enforcement of data, users, and services involved in a smart grid network.

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confidence: 99%