Authors:
Luis Pacheco
;
Eduardo Alchieri
and
Priscila Solis
Affiliation:
University of Brasília, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Privacy, Security, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Cloud of Things.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Modeling of Distributed Systems
;
Security
;
Security and Privacy
Abstract:
A large number of devices are connected to the internet through the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, resulting
in a huge amount of produced data. Cloud computing is a computing paradigm currently adopted to
process, store and provide access control to these data. This integration is called Cloud of Things - CoT and
is useful in personal networks, like residential automation and health care, since it facilitates the access to
the information. Although this integration brings benefits to the users, it introduces many security challenges
since the information leaves the user control and is stored at the cloud providers. Particularly interesting, in
order for these technologies to be adopted, it is important to provide protocols and mechanisms to preserve
the users privacy when storing their data in the cloud. In this context, this paper proposes an architecture for
privacy in Cloud of Things, which allows the users to fully control the access to the data generated by the
devices of th
eir IoT networks and stored in the cloud. The proposed architecture enables a fine grained control
over data, since the privacy protocols and controls are executed at the IoT devices instead of at the network
border by a gateway, which also could represent a single point of failure or a component that could impair the
security properties of the system once it is compromised by a successful attack.
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