Internet of things security

Abstract

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) with its sprawling set of technologies and use cases paves way for diversified and new service providers to develop a plethora of connected products and services for a go-ahead business and enrich lives of individuals. As the new service providers may be unaware of the threats their services face and the emerging categories of first time connected devices, IoT services, use cases and the network types comes along with a new threat landscape there is a huge possibility for even a Zero-day exploits. The provision of wide area connectivity to an ever-widening variety of IoT services will increase the whole ecosystem’s exposure to fraud and attack. As the security issues are a significant inhibitor to the deployment of many new IoT services and attackers are showing ever greater interest in this area, this research article presents an overview of the threat vectors to the IoT ecosystem and the expected security features with Security-as-a-Network Service (SENSE) and other solutions that need to be in place to thwart the evolving security threats.