A Survey on Securing IoT Systems
Antara De, Hassan Sadashiva Guruprasad · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2015
The emerging trend of Internet of Things (IoT) has spread across almost all components of modern life, starting from smart building, smart city, medical care, wearable devices, automobiles or industries. However, physical things getting attached to the Internet poses new challenges of making the entire system more vulnerable, prone to attacks and misuse. Moreover, the heterogeneous nature of all different devices, resource-constrained wireless sensor network nodes make traditional security algorithms inapplicable for IoT scenario. So, IoT systems should consider applying new set of security measures to deal with IoT specific security needs. In this paper, we review the major IoT security approaches, namely authentication & authorization, context aware lightweight protocol design & key management, anonymity, data privacy, trust and standardization. We conclude our discussion by listing the future research direction with respect to securing IoT.