Paper Info
Title
Sounding the Bell for Improving Internet (of Things) Security.
Abstract
The fragility of the Internet of Things (iot) ecosystem poses serious threats to Internet security, and the proliferation of iot devices only exacerbates this situation by providing vulnerable end-points to be exploited and used as attack sources. While industry and academia are working hard on designing innovative solutions to detect, mitigate and thwart massive botnet-based ddos attacks, the space of solutions appears disjoint and fragmented. The lack of cooperation between the iot device manufacturers, network operators, content providers, end users, and other players precipitates in point solutions which offer at best a veneer of security. In this paper we alert the community to the security challenges posed by the fragile iot ecosystem, discuss the space of solutions, and present the need for a distributed, concerted effort, e.g., among end users, ISPs, and CDNs, to improve Internet security. We do not claim to solve the problem, but offer design guidelines and discuss the key implementation challenges to inform the debates on iot security.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3139937.3139946
IoT S&P@CCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of Things (IoT), Botnet, DDoS attacks
Internet privacy,Internet security,Denial-of-service attack,End user,Computer security,Computer science,Botnet,Internet of Things,Computer network
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5396-0
1
0.35
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Theophilus Benson1169493.95
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran28410.39