OpenFog security requirements and approaches

Abstract

The emerging interconnection among mobile/IoT devices, Fog Nodes and Cloud servers are creating a multi-tier pervasive communication-computing infrastructure that will one day embody billions of devices and span across elaborate hierarchies of administration and application domains. This novel infrastructure and its operation paradigms will give rise to new security challenges as well as new service opportunities. This paper provides an overview of the security landscape of OpenFog architecture as well as a survey of the functional requirements and the technical approaches currently being discussed in the OpenFog Security Workgroup. As a report of on-going work, this paper aims at stimulating further dialogue on OpenFog Security and fostering future development of novel technologies and practices.