Economic incentive based solution against distributed denial of service attacks for IoT customers
Vipindev Adat Vasudevan, Amrita Dahiya, Brij Bhooshan Gupta · 2018
The market of Internet of Things is increasing at a very high rate. As most of the devices get connected to the internet, the security challenges of these devices are also increasing. With the abundance in the internet connectivity, distributed denial of service attack incidents is many folded in the recent past. The constrained nature of IoT devices makes them the easy target for the attackers. Further, the trade-off between quantitative factors like size, space and response time with a qualitative property like security mechanism, on a manufacturer's point of view, always prefers the quantitative properties and the security mechanisms in most of the IoT-enabled smart devices are minimal. Considering such a scenario, we propose a model to secure the IoT network like a smart home using a secure gateway router. Further, we propose the risk transfer mechanism based on economic incentive based agreement. It can be the most feasible solution in a case if the owner of the network is not always able to ensure the security of the whole network. An already communicated third party will take care of the security in case of any security breach.