IoT Security & Privacy: Threats and Challenges

The era of the Internet of Things (IoT) has already started and it will profoundly change our way of life. While IoT provides us many valuable benefits, IoT also exposes us to many different types of security threats in our daily life. Before the advent of IoT, most security threats were just related to information leakage and the loss of service. With IoT, security threats have become closely related to our non-virtual lives and they can directly influence physical security risk.

The Internet of Things consists of various platforms and devices with different capabilities, and each system will need security solutions depending on its characteristics. There is a demand for security solutions that are able to support multi-profile platforms and provide equivalent security levels for various device interactions. In addition, user privacy will become more important in the IoT environment because a lot of personal information will be delivered and shared among connected things. Therefore, we need mechanisms to protect personal data and monitor their flow from things to the cloud. In this talk, we describe threats and concerns for security and privacy arising from IoT services, and introduce approaches to solve these security and privacy issues in the industrial field.