A firewall for Internet of Things

Abstract

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), privacy and security of sensitive data has become a major concern. In general, sensors which are the enablers for IoT, send the sensed data to a cloud database over the internet. The communication to the cloud database may be compromised by an adversary, or the database maybe accessed by a curious database administrator, thereby raising security concerns. To solve this issue, we demonstrate a solution to safeguard IoT devices in a home network scenario from potential attacks. A firewall is set up using a Raspberry Pi as a gateway which secures their communication with the cloud database. Furthermore, we plan to build a location-aware (physical location in the home network scenario) heuristics and a signature based traffic detection dashboard running on the Raspberry Pi, in order to control the IoT devices and log their network behavior.

Type
Publication
2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)