Securing Internet of Things with web application firewall
Joonas Blomberg · Doria (University of Helsinki) · 2017
The amount of internet-enabled machines is increasing rapidly due to the internet of things technology and web security is lagging behind. This thesis looks at web application firewalls as the security layer for IoT enabled devices. Web application firewalls’ features and security models are explained and XMPP’s relevance to IoT and WAFs is researched. A metasearch is also conducted on the WAF field. An XMPP filtering plugin was implemented on the open software WAF ModSecurity and it was evaluated with the help of an evaluation tool.