Security and Privacy in the Age of the Smart Internet of Things: An Overview from a Networking Perspective

Yu, Shui; Wang, Guojun; Liu, Xiting; Niu, Jianwei

doi:10.1109/mcom.2018.1701204

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“…This becomes truly serious in areas such as banks, healthcare, and, without doubt, IPV survivor safety. Some authors, such as Yu et al [63], insist on the importance of this idea in ICT and especially IoT-based structures, which can easily be exposed to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Chiang and Zang [64] suggest some future strategies to strengthen IoT communications: keeping security credentials and software up to date, protecting resource-constrained devices, assessing the security status of a large distributed system in a trustworthy manner, and responding to security compromises without causing intolerable disruptions.…”

Section: Ethics: Security and Privacy Dilemmasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Holistic ICT Platform for Protecting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Based on the IoT Paradigm

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Featured Application: A complete review of information and communication technology (ICT) strategies to manage intimate partner violence (IPV) and protect IPV survivors is provided. A holistic ICT solution which would overcome the limitations of previous works is presented, promoting symmetry in society.Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a scourge that compromises the rights of many women around the world, shaping an asymmetry in civil rights. Fighting gender-based violence, especially when it is committed by an intimate partner, is an important responsibility that needs to be addressed from all angles. It is also remarkable that our society is clearly conditioned by information and communication technology (ICT), which involves many aspects of our daily life. Unfortunately, violence that is performed in the real world is also replicated in this 'virtual' existence, by offenders in ICT contexts. On the other hand, the same technologies also provide a plethora of opportunities to fight IPV, which are enhanced by the innovative paradigm of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). In this work, we first present a thorough compilation of ICT proposals already published-based on either hardware or software-aimed at protecting IPV survivors, and which can be applied in real life situations but also within social networks. The challenges that still lie ahead are highlighted and, a complete ICT-based platform for IPV management, within an IoT framework, that overcomes the limitations of previous works is proposed, and then promoting a symmetry between individuals in society.Symmetry 2020, 12, 37 2 of 17 in any form or means. According to UN (United Nations) statistics, almost 35% women around the world have experienced some kind of physical or sexual violence [1]. The same statistics show that some 75% of women face physical and sexual aggression. This is a call for attention to be paid to this scourge. It is incredible that in 2017, some 87,000 women were killed across the world, of whom 58% (50,000) were killed by their husband or other relatives (https://www.unodc.org/).In recent years much research has focused on IPV and its connection to many related issues, that is, social awareness [2]. This wide scope includes resources used by the victims (from now on, more appropriately called 'survivors') [3], barriers, and formal assistance in facing different expressions of violence [4]. Nonetheless, some authors like Bruckman have noted that the way violence is developed and its impact on women in an environment characterized by the use of information and communication technology (ICT), such as mobile phones, social media, or generally using internet, has not been properly studied or documented [5], although in recent years it has become an issue of study [6].In 2019, ICT and especially the internet, have clearly advanced in every aspect of society, and have had an effect in every part of the world. In the early 1990s, Haraway [7] anticipated the social changes and the effect, especially in gender issues, that...

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Section: Ethics: Security and Privacy Dilemmasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Holistic ICT Platform for Protecting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Based on the IoT Paradigm

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“…Beside the aforementioned areas, several works proposed security solutions specially designed for the IoT or D2D context with regard to confidentiality, data reliability, privacy, access control, and authentication, which are mostly surveyed in previous studies. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] More related to our paper, some other survey papers review existing works focusing especially on trust models in the IoT 6,9,10,[32][33][34] or D2D 11,35,36 context. In the following, we review these works, regardless of whether they use or not social-related information.…”

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T‐D2D: A trust model for service offloading in device‐to‐device communication

Movahedi

Hosseini

2019

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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With the advances in pervasive computing, Internet of things (IoT) has gained considerable attention from both research and industrial communities. While IoT devices are able to provide computational services to other devices via device‐to‐device (D2D) communications, they are not guaranteed to be honest and collaborative. In such a context, the trust model can help to detect malicious service providers. However, malicious nodes may perform trust‐distortion attacks to mislead the trust model. They may perform on‐off attacks to remain undetected or bad‐mouth about others to make it difficult to infer if a contradictory recommendation comes from the on‐off nature of the evaluated node or dishonesty of the recommender. To address these issues, we propose T‐D2D, a lightweight trust model capable to face simultaneous trust‐distortion attacks. T‐D2D evaluates a node's nature using both short‐term and long‐term evaluation intervals to detect different types of on‐off attacks. Moreover, it keeps track of marginal misbehaving over several successive intervals to recognize the nature of suspicious on‐off nodes with light misbehaving attitude. To face bad‐mouthing attackers, T‐D2D limits its dependence on recommendations to when the direct trust is not decisive. Moreover, it evaluates the honesty of a recommender based on the correctness of its recommendations over time. Simulation results prove that T‐D2D exhibits significantly better performance than other counterparts in terms of trust level, correctness of calculated trust, percentage of selected malicious providers, total wasted execution time, and energy consumption in presence of simultaneous trust‐distortion attacks.

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“…This summary indicates the need to protect IoT systems and resources from potential threats and attacks not only in internal networks but also originating from networks that span multiple jurisdictions. With the sensitive nature of the IoT and its dynamic characteristics, many of these issues cannot be addressed with a simple software patch or commonly used security measures [ 23 , 24 , 25 ]. Security solutions for the IoT need to be designed for their intended context, the IoT.…”

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Security Requirements for the Internet of Things: A Systematic Approach

Pal

Hitchens

Rabehaja

et al. 2020

Sensors

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There has been a tremendous growth in the number of smart devices and their applications (e.g., smart sensors, wearable devices, smart phones, smart cars, etc.) in use in our everyday lives. This is accompanied by a new form of interconnection between the physical and digital worlds, commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT). This is a paradigm shift, where anything and everything can be interconnected via a communication medium. In such systems, security is a prime concern and protecting the resources (e.g., applications and services) from unauthorized access needs appropriately designed security and privacy solutions. Building secure systems for the IoT can only be achieved through a thorough understanding of the particular needs of such systems. The state of the art is lacking a systematic analysis of the security requirements for the IoT. Motivated by this, in this paper, we present a systematic approach to understand the security requirements for the IoT, which will help designing secure IoT systems for the future. In developing these requirements, we provide different scenarios and outline potential threats and attacks within the IoT. Based on the characteristics of the IoT, we group the possible threats and attacks into five areas, namely communications, device/services, users, mobility and integration of resources. We then examine the existing security requirements for IoT presented in the literature and detail our approach for security requirements for the IoT. We argue that by adhering to the proposed requirements, an IoT system can be designed securely by achieving much of the promised benefits of scalability, usability, connectivity, and flexibility in a practical and comprehensive manner.

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Security and Privacy in the Age of the Smart Internet of Things: An Overview from a Networking Perspective

Cited by 43 publications

References 14 publications

Towards a Holistic ICT Platform for Protecting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Based on the IoT Paradigm

Towards a Holistic ICT Platform for Protecting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Based on the IoT Paradigm

T‐D2D: A trust model for service offloading in device‐to‐device communication

Security Requirements for the Internet of Things: A Systematic Approach

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