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Open challenges in vetting the internet‐of‐things
Internet Technology Letters
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
  • Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar
  • Muhammad Asim, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
  • Thar Baker Shamsa
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0003-4462-8337

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2-2019
Abstract

Internet‐of‐Thing (IoT) is a rapid‐emerging technology that exploits the concept of internetwork to connect things such as physical devices and objects together. A huge number of things (6.4 billion are in use in 2016) are already acting without direct human control raising a lot of concerns about the readiness and appropriateness of existing security practices, techniques, and tools to secure the data collected and protect people's private lives. As a first step, this paper presses the importance of having a dedicated process for vetting IoT (by analogy to vetting mobile apps) with focus on exposing things' vulnerabilities that could be the primary source of attacks. These vulnerabilities are identified according to things' duties decomposed into sensing, actuating, and communicating. A set of questions shed light on things' vulnerabilities per type of duty.

Publisher
Wiley
Disciplines
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
https://doi.org/10.1002/itl2.129
Citation Information
Zakaria Maamar, Ejub Kajan, Muhammad Asim and Thar Baker Shamsa. "Open challenges in vetting the internet‐of‐things" Internet Technology Letters Vol. 2 (2019) p. e129 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2476-1508" target="_blank">2476-1508</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/315/