Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Things

Citation: Zahraddeen Gwarzo, Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Things, in: Jusletter IT IRIS

The growing ambition to connect every «thing» to the internet, and provide a platform on which these «things» talk to one another has become an irresistible drive. Objects, Humans, Animals, Service Providers, Processing Systems and Intelligent Systems make up the Internet of things. The security and privacy challenges in such a vast extension of our powers into unknown territory are enormous. Weak authentication mechanisms due to constrained resources, lack of effective access control, lack of physical security over the proliferation of «objects», and privacy issues we had never contemplated before, are all now first coming to light.

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