Situation Assessment to Secure IoT Applications

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) may be defined as a collection of independent and dependent devices as well as human agents that form a network. IoT has provided a promising opportunity to build powerful industrial and enterprise systems that in turns offers conveniences and efficiency to achieve better quality of life. With the lucrative IoT benefits, also come new security and privacy challenges in terms of the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of the data sensed, collected, and exchanged by the IoT objects. These challenges make IoT deployments extremely vulnerable to different types of security attacks, resulting in insecure IoT environments. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out situation assessment to identify possible security risks to develop a complete picture of secure IoT deployments. In this paper, we present basic elements of IoT models and provide situation assessment for IoT applications. We have highlighted the security enhancement measures for the IoT applications based on the three domain (local, transfer and data storage) of the IoT model. Trends within situation assessment for security area will be highlighted in addition to identification of niche areas where future efforts will be directed.