In a recent podcast by Scott Hanselman and Erica Stanley, an Internet of Things (IoT) primer, the guest mentioned how security is being treated as an afterthought for most things IoT. This is unfortunately true in various areas of software development; but especially with the unprecedented growth of IoT, this lax in providing security standards will fast become a safety and security dilemma.
To borrow the variety, velocity and volume analogy of Big Data, IoT is also subject to a very large variety of devices, supporting different velocities (performance capacities) and volumes (large number of devices, meshes etc). Protection of data in these devices and providing privacy of is definitely the key challenges in the IoT. It is also bad for business since lax security measures will cause decreased adoption impacting the success of the IoT and hinder overall development.
Following are some of the relevant links and papers which provide overview, analysis and taxonomy of security and privacy challenges in IoT.
References and Further Reading
- Erica's talk on The Internet of Things from the All Things Open Conference
- Proposed Security Model and Threat Taxonomy for the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Future Internet: The Internet of Things Architecture, Possible Applications and Key Challenges
- Internet of Things Demands Security by Design
- Internet of Things (IOT): Seven enterprise risks to consider
- SECURITY IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS Lessons from the Past for the Connected Future
- Cisco Security Products for the IoT
- IoT security: How to do it (mostly) right
- Developers Discuss IoT Security And Platforms Trends
- Understanding The Protocols Behind The Internet Of Things
- The Nest
- Arduino
- Intel Edison
- The Internet Of Things Is A Standards Thing
