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Towards a Standard-based Security and Privacy of
IoT System’s Services
Christophe Feltus
IT for Innovative Services (ITIS)
Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST)
Luxembourg
christophe.feltus@list.lu
0000-0002-7182-8185
Thierry Grandjean
IT for Innovative Services (ITIS)
Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST)
Luxembourg
thierry.grandjean@list.lu
Djamel Khadraoui
IT for Innovative Services (ITIS)
Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST)
Luxembourg
djamel.khadraoui@list.lu
Jocelyn Aubert
IT for Innovative Services (ITIS)
Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST)
Luxembourg
jocelyn.aubert@list.lu
Abstract— The Internet of Things (IoT) industry increases
rapidly and becomes progressively more devoted to critical
business services. IoT adoption generates two kinds of
challenges: cybersecurity risks and privacy concerns. In order
to generate a trust environment and provide confidence to IoT
business services, LIST will partnered with private companies
to implement an integrated framework and software tools for
assessing and monitoring IoT system’s service security and
privacy. SPRINT assessment and monitoring foresees (1) an
aggregated publicly available security and privacy integrated
referential database dedicated to IoT services (SPRINT-REF),
and (2), an IoT service-oriented assessment and monitoring
methods based on this referential (SPRINT-METH).
Compared to existing approaches, SPRINT-METH innovation
is that it is service-oriented rather than device-oriented, as well
as based recognized existing professional standards. Finally,
the SPRINT toolbox (3) will include two assets: a software web
service component aiming to assess the IoT system’s service at
the time of design, and an IoT Security Operations Centre to
monitor IoT security and privacy at run time (SPRINT-
TOOL).
Keywords—IoT security, IoT privacy, system’s services,
system assessment, system monitoring, standard-based.
I. INTRODUCTION
The IoT industry is gradually becoming more dedicated
to critical business activities [1] like in smart-cities (smart-
mobility, smart-building, etc.), the control of vital signs in
healthcare [2], or the monitoring of railway infrastructure.
According to Gartner [3], the amount of IoT devices will
increase to up to 20.6 billion units installed by 2020 with 7.4
billion in business activities (cross-industry and vertical-
specific) including thousands of different devices and
manufacturers. Gartner also foresees a progression of the IoT
investment in professional services from 570 billion dollars
in 2016 to 2.071 billion in 2021 [4]. This expansion will
cause industry-wide concerns about whether IoT devices can
be managed securely and reliably [3]. Accordingly, IoT
adoption poses two kinds of challenges for organizations:
risks related to security [5] and privacy [6]. For these
reasons, developing a new framework (green box of Fig. 1)
for monitoring and assessing such sensitive systems with the
massive volume of data they generate, and elaborating the
corresponding tools to support the latter (blue box), is
paramount. Although frameworks for assessing and
monitoring the security and privacy of IoT services have
already been the focus of numerous research studies [7-10]
and proprietary initiatives [11]. It is worth noting that these
solutions still face the following limitations: (1) they are
partially based on IoT standards [12], (2) they mainly
address IoT devices but do not concern the IoT-System’s
Services (IoT-SS) [13], (3) they are not publicly available,
and (4) they concern generic IoT environments [7-10] but are
not sector specific.
A. Standard based IoT Assessment.
A simplified IoT framework, following [14, 15], may be
structured in three layers: the perception layer, which
includes the physical devices that sense data and digitalize it
for transportation, the network layer, which includes
infrastructure protocols, and the application layer, which
consists of the user interface enabling access to the data.
Based on this three-layer approach, all existing IoT platforms
[16] (e.g. AWS (Amazon Web Services) IoT, Azure IoT
Suite, Brillo/Weave from Google, etc.) propose their own
architecture, which must comply to the standards associated
with the different layers. This is however not the case in
practice, where existing assessment frameworks [7-10] tend
to analyse security and privacy based on requirements mostly
gathered from scientific publications or professional
guidelines but not directly associated to a portfolio of
relevant standards like the GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 and
ISO/IEC 15408. SPRINT-REF will be founded on the
integration of this initial list of standards based on the
aggregation of security and privacy IoT related metrics.
Fig. 1. SPRINT building blocks