Security in the Internet of Things: Recent
Challenges and Solutions
Hamza Belkhiri, Abderraouf Messai, Mohamed Belaoued, and Farhi Haider
Abstract Internet of things (IoT) is one of the technological revolutions of the
new computing technology era, and is considered as the Web 3.0, in which billions
of smart devices are interconnected. Although these connected objects offer many
advantages, they are a critical risk in terms of security and privacy. In this paper,
we present a review of the most recent threats and attacks targeting the IoT as well
as the most relevant existing solutions that deal with these threats. Moreover, we
provide an evaluation of these solutions with regards to IoT’s future trends. Finally,
we provide our recommendations to insure a high security level against the different
threats targeting IoT devices.
Keywords Internet of Thing · IoT · IoT security · DoS/DDoS attack · WSN · IoT
malware
1 Introduction
The connection of a group of objects and devices of various kinds through the Internet
network constitutes the so-called Internet of things [1]. This term was introduced in
1999 Kevin Ashton [2]. The company Cisco systems estimated that in April 2014,
there were about 12.1 billion of devices connected to the Internet, indicating that the
H. Belkhiri · A. Messai · F. Haider (B )
Department of Electronics, University Freres Mentouri Constantine 1, Constantine, Algeria
e-mail: h_ferhi@yahoo.fr
H. Belkhiri
e-mail: hamzabelkhiri01@gmail.com
A. Messai
e-mail: r_messai@yahoo.fr
M. Belaoued
Lire Laboratory Software Technologies and Information Systems Department, University of
Constantine 2, Constantine, Algeria
e-mail: belaoued.mohamed@gmail.com
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