Security Implications of Fog Computing on the Internet of Things

TL;DR

This paper surveys the integration of fog computing with IoT, highlighting security challenges and benefits, and emphasizing the need for cybersecurity solutions in this emerging domain.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of security implications of fog-IoT integration, identifying key problems and potential benefits.

Findings

Security challenges are significant but manageable.

Fog-IoT integration offers more benefits than security risks.

The study emphasizes the need for cybersecurity solutions in fog-IoT systems.

Abstract

Recently, the use of IoT devices and sensors has been rapidly increased which also caused data generation (information and logs), bandwidth usage, and related phenomena to be increased. To our best knowledge, a standard definition for the integration of fog computing with IoT is emerging now. This integration will bring many opportunities for the researchers, especially while building cyber-security related solutions. In this study, we surveyed about the integration of fog computing with IoT and its implications. Our goal was to find out and emphasize problems, specifically security related problems that arise with the employment of fog computing by IoT. According to our findings, although this integration seems to be non-trivial and complicated, it has more benefits than the implications.