IoT based smart home: Security challenges, security requirements and solutions

Ali, Waqar; Dustgeer, Ghulam; Awais, Muhammad; Shah, Munam Ali

doi:10.23919/iconac.2017.8082057

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“…Active attacks include, e.g., modification of information or attempting to gain unauthorized access to system resources. Common examples of active attacks are worms, malware, ramsomware, password cracking, or denial of service [ 23 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ali et al in [ 23 ] list the basic security requirements in the smart home environment: User and Device Authentication, Monitor the Network, Integrity, Availability, and Confidentiality. Of these requirements, Availability is most at risk in a smart home due to a DDoS attack, as the Availability requirement ensures that all network services and resources are available in a protected form at all times.…”

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Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment

Huraj

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Horák

2020

Sensors

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Smart devices along with sensors are gaining in popularity with the promise of making life easier for the owner. As the number of sensors in an Internet of Things (IoT) system grows, a question arises as to whether the transmission between the sensors and the IoT devices is reliable and whether the user receives alerts correctly and in a timely manner. Increased deployment of IoT devices with sensors increases possible safety risks. It is IoT devices that are often misused to create Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which is due to the weak security of IoT devices against misuse. The article looks at the issue from the opposite point of view, when the target of a DDoS attack are IoT devices in a smart home environment. The article examines how IoT devices and the entire smart home will behave if they become victims of a DDoS attack aimed at the smart home from the outside. The question of security was asked in terms of whether a legitimate user can continue to control and receive information from IoT sensors, which is available during normal operation of the smart home. The case study was done both from the point of view of the attack on the central units managing the IoT sensors directly, as well as on the smart-home personal assistant systems, with which the user can control the IoT sensors. The article presents experimental results for individual attacks performed in the case study and demonstrates the resistance of real IoT sensors against DDoS attack. The main novelty of the article is that the implementation of a personal assistant into the smart home environment increases the resistance of the user’s communication with the sensors. This study is a pilot testing the selected sensor sample to show behavior of smart home under DDoS attack.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment

Huraj

Šimon

Horák

2020

Sensors

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“…Results indicate that many participants were reluctant to introduce sensing technologies and recording devices into their home. They felt wary of leaving digital trails others can monitor and use to their advantage, such as to break in when the house is empty (Ali et al, 2017;Portet et al, 2013;Wilson et al, 2015;Derniris et al, 2013)…”

Section: Security and Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Insights into the Impact of Implementing a Smart House on Special Needs People in the UAE

Shubita

2019

Journal of Computer Science

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One of the benefits of smart houses is empowering the special needs in their daily life. There is clear effort in helping special needs live independently yet it's not widely implemented in the UAE. This study aimed to give insight into the efforts of supporting their daily activities regarding health, security and time-efficiency. It investigated and identified the impact of implementing smart environments to overcome disabled people's struggles and obstacles in their ADLs. This research used three data collection techniques; survey, questionnaire and interview. Using these techniques, it's clear that smart homes are useful for special needs in many aspects. The main result of the research was its time efficient; but based on the task and experience. The privacy and security level(s) depend on the family and the individual's condition, it can serve their health needs per their health condition. The effects of smart homes might permanently change the living styles of special needs people in the Emirati culture.ADL covers a broad range of living functions in any house, like using the telephone, preparing meals and drinks, watching TV, going to sleep, wearing clothes and many other simple activities. The goal is to find out how much time does it take for special needs to finish common activities in a smart home. To see if smart houses support shortening the time to finish an activity, especially for people with disabilities.

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“…A smart home system is a typical ubiquitous computing environment, but there are a lot of problems that need to be solved. Ali [ 21 ], detected the security threats by posing several scenarios and evaluating the impact of these threats on a smart home environment. Chifor et al [ 22 ] proposed a lightweight authorization stack for smart home IoT applications and the architecture is user-device centric.…”

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A Hypergraph-Based Blockchain Model and Application in Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Homes

Tao

Yuan

2018

Sensors

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With the fast development and expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of smart devices are being continuously connected, and smart homes, as a typical IoT application, are providing people with various convenient applications, but face security and privacy issues. The idea of Blockchain (BC) theory has brought about a potential solution to the IoT security problem. The emergence of blockchain technology has brought about a change of decentralized management, providing an effective solution for the protection of network security and privacy. On the other hand, the smart devices in IoT are always lightweight and have less energy and memory. This makes the application of blockchain difficult. Against this background, this paper proposes a blockchain model based on hypergraphs. The aims of this model are to reduce the storage consumption and to solve the additional security issues. In the model, we use the hyperedge as the organization of storage nodes and convert the entire networked data storage into part network storage. We discuss the design of the model and security strategy in detail, introducing some use cases in a smart home network and evaluating the storage performance of the model through simulation experiments and an evaluation of the network.

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IoT based smart home: Security challenges, security requirements and solutions

Cited by 79 publications

References 31 publications

Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment

Resistance of IoT Sensors against DDoS Attack in Smart Home Environment

Insights into the Impact of Implementing a Smart House on Special Needs People in the UAE

A Hypergraph-Based Blockchain Model and Application in Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Homes

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