A study on APT in IoT networks

Abstract

Many companies are being targeted by attacks called Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). These are difficult to be detected because espionage and important information stealing are the main tecniques instead of trying to crash the system by causing a denial of service (DoS) attack, for example. With the popularization of the Internet of Things (IoT) and knowing that these devices do not always have a high level of security, this type of attack can be more efficient and further compromise the security of associations. A study containing the main attacks and a proposed defense model will be presented in this work.