Security Survey of Dedicated IoT Networks in the Unlicensed ISM Bands

Kail, Eszter; Bánáti, Anna; Erdödi, László; Kozlovszky, Miklós

doi:10.1109/saci.2018.8440945

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“…STRIDE provides a basis or checklist for classes of potential types of threats to consider at each vulnerable point. The majority are well known in existing literature [ 1 , 35 , 36 ](bearing in mind that these tend to grow fast with time). Others may be visualised as part of the procedure.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recent developments in sensor networks and the need for smart meters, automated home devices and smart cities have led to the rise in the development of IoT technology-enabling devices to be connected and communicating with each other [ 1 ]. Communication between the IoT devices and smart hub is usually wireless and is connected to a network and the Internet via a traditional wireless router.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several existing technologies re-deployed in new purpose IoT networks such as Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi are known to increase security vulnerabilities. This is due to the fact that these technologies were not designed for IoT cyberinfrastructures or cyber-physical systems in Industrial IoT deployments [ 1 ]. IoT applications and devices make security testing and patching complicated and often expensive due to the increased interdependencies between these devices and applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Holistic Systems Security Approach Featuring Thin Secure Elements for Resilient IoT Deployments

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Gan

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IoT systems differ from traditional Internet systems in that they are different in scale, footprint, power requirements, cost and security concerns that are often overlooked. IoT systems inherently present different fail-safe capabilities than traditional computing environments while their threat landscapes constantly evolve. Further, IoT devices have limited collective security measures in place. Therefore, there is a need for different approaches in threat assessments to incorporate the interdependencies between different IoT devices. In this paper, we run through the design cycle to provide a security-focused approach to the design of IoT systems using a use case, namely, an intelligent solar-panel project called Daedalus. We utilise STRIDE/DREAD approaches to identify vulnerabilities using a thin secure element that is an embedded, tamper proof microprocessor chip that allows the storage and processing of sensitive data. It benefits from low power demand and small footprint as a crypto processor as well as is compatible with IoT requirements. Subsequently, a key agreement based on an asymmetric cryptographic scheme, namely B-SPEKE was used to validate and authenticate the source. We find that end-to-end and independent stand-alone procedures used for validation and encryption of the source data originating from the solar panel are cost-effective in that the validation is carried out once and not several times in the chain as is often the case. The threat model proved useful not so much as a panacea for all threats but provided the framework for the consideration of known threats, and therefore appropriate mitigation plans to be deployed.

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A Holistic Systems Security Approach Featuring Thin Secure Elements for Resilient IoT Deployments

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Gan

Epiphaniou

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Sensors

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“…A detailed and extensive study on security aspects of LoRaWAN 1.1 is presented in [7], however the authors did not employ a test-bed with real hardware. As far as Sigfox or NB-IoT is concerned, their security issues are only briefly mentioned in [8] and [9]. The authors of [9] attempt to provide an overview of security issues in LPWAN networks (LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Sigfox, DASH7), however the analysis provided is very superficial and no results from hands-on experiments are presented.…”

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Security Issues in Internet of Things: Vulnerability Analysis of LoRaWAN, Sigfox and NB-IoT

Coman

Malarski

Petersen

et al. 2019

2019 Global IoT Summit (GIoTS)

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One of the key enablers of an increased Internet of Things (IoT) roll-out is Low-Power Wide Area Network (LP-WAN)-a family of technologies tailored for resilient and energy-efficient communication of thousands of devices over large distances (even up to 100km). Under the pressure from both the business and the society to provide ubiquitous connectivity as soon as possible, new IoT deployments are conducted with haste and often by inexperienced people. Consequently, the aspect of communication security traditionally remains a secondary matter, even though the potential harm of a successful hacker attack can be enormous. Therefore, this paper presents an analysis of LP-WAN vulnerabilities, as well as several Proofof-Concept (PoC) attacks toward LoRaWAN (packet forging), Sigfox (replay with DoS) and NB-IoT (attack using malicious UE), that confirm the existence of the vulnerabilities in both the standards and off-the-shelf hardware and services.

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“…are some of the methodology proposed in the literature. The threats, effects and impacts of LPWAN security menaces have been extensively discussed in numerous studies [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. To mitigate the growing IoT and LPWAN security challenges, numerous security solutions such as intrusion detection systems (IDSs), key management and encryption schemes have been proposed in the literature [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”

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A Survey on the Security of Low Power Wide Area Networks: Threats, Challenges, and Potential Solutions

Alimi

Ouahada

Abu‐Mahfouz

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Low power wide area network (LPWAN) is among the fastest growing networks in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Owing to varieties of outstanding features which include long range communication and low power consumption, LPWANs are fast becoming the most widely deployed connectivity standards in IoT domain. However, this promising network are exposed to various security and privacy threats and challenges. For reliable connectivity within networks, the security and privacy challenges need to be effectively addressed with proper mitigation protocol in place. In this paper, a comprehensive review on the security feature of LPWAN is presented. The paper mainly focuses on analyzing LPWAN’s key cybersecurity architecture and it present a significant emphasis on how the LPWAN is highly attractive to intruders and attackers. This paper aims at summarizing recent research works on key LPWAN security challenges such as replay attack, denial-of-service attack, worm hole attack, and eavesdropping attack, the effect of the attacks, and most importantly the various approaches proposed in the literature for the attacks’ mitigation. The paper concludes by highlighting major research gaps and future directions for the successful deployment of LPWAN.

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Security Survey of Dedicated IoT Networks in the Unlicensed ISM Bands

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

A Holistic Systems Security Approach Featuring Thin Secure Elements for Resilient IoT Deployments

A Holistic Systems Security Approach Featuring Thin Secure Elements for Resilient IoT Deployments

Security Issues in Internet of Things: Vulnerability Analysis of LoRaWAN, Sigfox and NB-IoT

A Survey on the Security of Low Power Wide Area Networks: Threats, Challenges, and Potential Solutions

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