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Threat Analysis for Smart Homes

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  • Georgios Kavallieratos

    (Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway)

  • Nabin Chowdhury

    (Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway)

  • Sokratis Katsikas

    (Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway
    Open University of Cyprus, 33 Giannou Kranidioti, Latsia 2220, Cyprus)

  • Vasileios Gkioulos

    (Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway)

  • Stephen Wolthusen

    (Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway
    Information Security Group, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK)

Abstract

The development and deployment of highly dynamic, cyber+connected operational environments, such as smart homes, smart cities, and smart transportation systems, is increasing. The security analysis of such dynamic environments necessitates the use of dynamic risk assessment methodologies and the modeling of dynamically changing states. In this paper, we focus on the smart home environment, where the deployment of IoT devices increase the attack surface. We examine existing dynamic risk assessment methodologies, and by leveraging a smart home reference architecture we identify the security risks of a smart home’s physical and communication viewpoints, taking into consideration also dynamic operational aspects. Further, we develop a smart home network topology generator and a graph-based attack model to study dependencies among dynamically changing states and the propagation of a malware infection.

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  • Georgios Kavallieratos & Nabin Chowdhury & Sokratis Katsikas & Vasileios Gkioulos & Stephen Wolthusen, 2019. "Threat Analysis for Smart Homes," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-19, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:11:y:2019:i:10:p:207-:d:270727
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    1. Pal, Debajyoti & Zhang, Xiangmin & Siyal, Saeed, 2021. "Prohibitive factors to the acceptance of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in society: A smart-home context using a resistive modelling approach," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).

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