Internet of Things Security and Forensics: Challenges and Opportunities

TL;DR

This paper discusses the unique security and forensic challenges in IoT networks, emphasizing the importance of detecting compromised nodes and preserving attack evidence to ensure secure deployment.

Contribution

It provides an overview of major IoT security and forensics challenges and reviews recent research addressing these issues.

Findings

Identification of key security challenges in IoT

Discussion of forensic requirements for IoT

Review of recent research papers on IoT security

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions pervasive, connected, and smart nodes interacting autonomously while offering all sorts of services. Wide distribution, openness and relatively high processing power of IoT objects made them an ideal target for cyber attacks. Moreover, as many of IoT nodes are collecting and processing private information, they are becoming a goldmine of data for malicious actors. Therefore, security and specifically the ability to detect compromised nodes, together with collecting and preserving evidences of an attack or malicious activities emerge as a priority in successful deployment of IoT networks. In this paper, we first introduce existing major security and forensics challenges within IoT domain and then briefly discuss about papers published in this special issue targeting identified challenges.