A survey of security challenges, attacks taxonomy and advanced countermeasures in the internet of things
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) facilitates the integration between objects and different sensors to provide communication among them without human intervention. However, the extensive demand for IoT and its various applications has continued to grow, coupled with the need to achieve foolproof security requirements. IoT produces a vast amount of data under several constraints such as low processor, power, and memory. These constraints, along with the invaluable data produced by IoT devices, make IoT vulnerable to various security attacks. This paper presents an overview of IoT, its well-known system architecture, enabling technologies, and discusses security challenges and goals. Furthermore, we analyze security vulnerabilities and provide state-of-the-art security taxonomy. The taxonomy of the most relevant and current IoT security attacks is presented for application, network, and physical layers. While most other surveys studied one of the areas of security measures, this study considers and reports on the most advanced security countermeasures within the areas of autonomic, encryption, and learning-based approaches. Additionally, we uncover security challenges that may be met by the research community regarding security implementation in heterogeneous IoT environment. Finally, we provide different visions about possible security solutions and future research directions.
Keywords
Security, Internet of things, Encryption, Taxonomy, Organizations, Protocols, Privacy, Attacks, Countermeasures, encryption, Internet of things, IoT architecture, Learning-based algorithm, Privacy, Security, Secure communications, Taxonomy
Divisions
fsktm,ai,Computer
Funders
Impact-Oriented Interdisciplinary Research Grant Programme (IIRG) (IIRG003A-19IISS),Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) (FP055-2019A)
Publication Title
IEEE Access
Volume
8
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publisher Location
445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA