JCN October special issue on IoT security and privacy
Daji Qiao, Farid Naït‐Abdesselam, Ryan Gerdes, Tie Qiu · Journal of Communications and Networks · 2019
The emerging IoT (Internet of Things) paradigm aims to connect all kinds of different physical objects together and make them accessible from the Internet, with advanced sensing, actuation, communications, and networking technologies. IoT systems vary in type, scale, and function. They range from Internet of Vehicles, to Industrial Internet of Things, to Internet of Battlefield Things and Internet of Medical Things. Gartner predicts that tens of billions of IoT devices will be in use in the near future. Many low-cost IoT devices have little processing power or storage capacity, resulting in poor built-in security capabilities. This allows these devices to be used as ingress points to access the broader IT or critical infrastructure. Because of the expanded attack surface, IoT security and privacy has become a pressing issue. Every threat against the IoT may constitute a more severe threat to the IT or critical infrastructure behind the IoT. Thus, it is imperative to study and understand the security and privacy risks related to IoT and to propose innovative solutions to deal with these risks. This special issue received 16 submitted manuscripts, out of which 7 papers have been accepted for publication. The papers in this special issue will report research advances in IoT Security and Privacy in the following two aspects: Algorithms and Protocols, and Systems and Applications. The papers in the special issue are briefly summarized.