Internet of Things security and forensics: Challenges and opportunities

Conti, Mauro; Dehghantanha, Ali; Franke, Katrin; Watson, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.future.2017.07.060

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“…2. When the authenticator is a smart device, we have the flexibility to adopt conventional IoT security strategies [31]. The challenges lie in the cases that the authenticator is a dumb device which is not compatible with conventional strategies (e.g., key-based schemes).…”

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A Light-Weight Authentication Scheme for Air Force Internet of Things

Cao

Ratazzi

2019

ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous because of its broad applications and the advance in communication technologies. The capabilities of IoT also enable its important role in homeland security and tactical missions, including Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RISTA). IoT security becomes the most critical issue before its extensive use in military operations. While the majority of research focuses on smart IoT devices, treatments for legacy dumb network-ready devices are lacking; moreover, IoT devices deployed in a hostile environment are often required to be dumb due to the strict hardware constraints, making them highly vulnerable to cyber attacks. To mitigate the problem, we propose a light-weight authentication scheme for dumb IoT devices, in a case study of the UAV-sensor collaborative RISTA missions. Our scheme utilizes the covert channels in the physical layer for authentications and does not request conventional key deployments, key generations which may cause security risks and large overhead that a dumb sensor cannot afford. Our scheme operates on the physical layer, and thus it is highly portable and generalizable to most commercial and military communication protocols. We demonstrate the viability of our scheme by building a prototype system and conducting experiments to emulate the behaviors of UAVs and sensors in real scenarios.

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Section: A System Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Light-Weight Authentication Scheme for Air Force Internet of Things

Cao

Ratazzi

2019

ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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“…Most of IoT nodes are not storing any metadata including temporal information which makes origin of evidence a challenge for an investigator. In the case of modified data or temporal data are missed then correlation of evidences gathered from the different IoT devices is almost impossible task [7].…”

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IoT Forensic A digital investigation framework for IoT systems

Sathwara

Dutta

Pricop

2018

2018 10th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

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Security issues, threats, and attacks in relation with the IoT have been identified as promising and challenging area of research. Eventually, the need for a forensics methodology for investigating IoT-related crime is therefore essential. However, the IoT poses many challenges for forensics investigators. These include the wide range and variety of information, the unclear lines of differentiation between networks, for example private networks increasingly fading into public networks. Further, integration of a large number of objects in IoT forensic interest, along with the relevance of identified and collected devices makes forensic of IoT devices more complicated. The scope of this paper is to present a framework for IoT forensic. We aimed at the study and development of the link to support digital investigations of IoT devices and tackle emerging challenges in digital forensics. We emphasize on various steps for digital forensic with respect to IoT devices.

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“…Some smartphones manufactured by Samsung even have a thermometer, barometer, humidity sensor and heartbeat sensor built in the phones. One of the application that was developed that made use of the smartphone sensors was an activity recognition application [3]. 2) Medical Sensors -Examples of these type of sensors are heart rate sensors, pulse sensors, sensors for estimating pulse, body temperature, breath rate and blood glucose levels and so forth.…”

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Internet of Things: a Survey of the Advancements

Dhivya¹,

Singh²

2018

IJET

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Internet of Things is a very broad concept and it is the name given to the interconnection of everyday devices to simplify, ease or provide useful information to the user. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) defines IoT as "A global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on, existing and evolving, interoperable information and communication technologies". The name "Internet of Things" was first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton in a presentation to Proctor and Gamble. In this paper, we review the protocols, architecture, and applications surfacing in the region of the Internet of Things in the current years. The web of things has the capability of changing a great part of the world we live in. IoT comprises of an advanced cluster of sensors inserted into various "things" that ceaselessly transmits and shares significant information to different gadgets and cloud. Information that causes us better see how these things function and cooperate. But how all of this can happen on such a large scale with so many devices transmitting data? A simple answer to that would be the Internet of Things platform that brings diverse information and provides a common language for the devices and apps to communicate with each other.

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Internet of Things security and forensics: Challenges and opportunities

Cited by 461 publications

References 21 publications

A Light-Weight Authentication Scheme for Air Force Internet of Things

A Light-Weight Authentication Scheme for Air Force Internet of Things

IoT Forensic A digital investigation framework for IoT systems

Internet of Things: a Survey of the Advancements

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