Attack Detection and Countermeasures at Edge Devices
Fahim Ahmed, Md Tanvir Arafin · 2025
This chapter presents the current security status of edge devices, more specifically, common attacks and countermeasures for devices in the existing Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. As edge devices permeate our lives, the potential of catastrophic attacks through edge devices becomes an everyday reality. Recent attacks such as Mirai, BrakTooth, Lemon Duck, and Satori have demonstrated how simple edge devices can be leveraged to launch large-scale attacks. Unfortunately, the countermeasures for these attacks are still immature and not widely adopted. In addition, there is a significant void in vulnerability research for edge devices. Hence, this chapter introduces the state-of-the-art security issues in edge devices and the existing countermeasures from a hardware-centric perspective.