Survey of Security and Privacy Issues of Internet of Things

TL;DR

This survey comprehensively reviews security and privacy challenges in IoT, highlighting vulnerabilities in information exchange technologies without proposing specific countermeasures.

Contribution

It provides an extensive overview of IoT security and privacy issues, focusing on existing vulnerabilities and technological loopholes.

Findings

Identifies key security loopholes in IoT information exchange

Highlights privacy concerns faced by end-users

Emphasizes the need for security countermeasures

Abstract

This paper is a general survey of all the security issues existing in the Internet of Things (IoT) along with an analysis of the privacy issues that an end-user may face as a consequence of the spread of IoT. The majority of the survey is focused on the security loopholes arising out of the information exchange technologies used in Internet of Things. No countermeasure to the security drawbacks has been analyzed in the paper.