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Crowdsourcing Analysis in 5G IoT: Cybersecurity Threats and Mitigation

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Crowdsourcing can be a powerful weapon against cyberattacks in 5G networks. In this paper we analyse this idea in detail, starting with the use cases in crowdsourcing focused on security, and highlighting those areas of a 5G ecosystem where crowdsourcing could be used to mitigate local and remote attacks, as well as to discourage criminal activities and cybercriminal behaviour. We pay particular attention to the capillary network, where an infinite number of IoT objects coexist. The analysis considers the different participants in a 5G IoT ecosystem.

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This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the projects IoTest (TIN2015-72634-EXP /AEI) and SMOG (TIN2016-79095-C2-1-R).

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    Ana Nieto, Antonio Acien & Gerardo Fernandez

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Nieto, A., Acien, A. & Fernandez, G. Crowdsourcing Analysis in 5G IoT: Cybersecurity Threats and Mitigation. Mobile Netw Appl 24, 881–889 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1146-4

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