Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things †
The use of Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing and a huge amount of data is being generated by IoT devices. Cloud computing is a natural candidate to handle this data since it has enough power and capacity to process, store and control data access. Moreover, this approach brings several bene...
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| author | Luis Alberto Belem Pacheco Eduardo Adilio Pelinson Alchieri Priscila América Solís Mendez Barreto |
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| description | The use of Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing and a huge amount of data is being generated by IoT devices. Cloud computing is a natural candidate to handle this data since it has enough power and capacity to process, store and control data access. Moreover, this approach brings several benefits to the IoT, such as the aggregation of all IoT data in a common place and the use of cloud services to consume this data and provide useful applications. However, enforcing user privacy when sending sensitive information to the cloud is a challenge. This work presents and evaluates an architecture to provide privacy in the integration of IoT and cloud computing. The proposed architecture, called PROTeCt—Privacy aRquitecture for integratiOn of internet of Things and Cloud computing, improves user privacy by implementing privacy enforcement at the IoT devices instead of at the gateway, as is usually done. Consequently, the proposed approach improves both system security and fault tolerance, since it removes the single point of failure (gateway). The proposed architecture is evaluated through an analytical analysis and simulations with severely constrained devices, where delay and energy consumption are evaluated and compared to other architectures. The obtained results show the practical feasibility of the proposed solutions and demonstrate that the overheads introduced in the IoT devices are worthwhile considering the increased level of privacy and security. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85649ccb7d254841b3ad3471e0ad6d3b2022-12-22T04:10:32ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202018-08-01188266410.3390/s18082664s18082664Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things †Luis Alberto Belem Pacheco0Eduardo Adilio Pelinson Alchieri1Priscila América Solís Mendez Barreto2Department of Computer Science, University of Brasília, Brasília 70910-900, BrazilDepartment of Computer Science, University of Brasília, Brasília 70910-900, BrazilDepartment of Computer Science, University of Brasília, Brasília 70910-900, BrazilThe use of Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing and a huge amount of data is being generated by IoT devices. Cloud computing is a natural candidate to handle this data since it has enough power and capacity to process, store and control data access. Moreover, this approach brings several benefits to the IoT, such as the aggregation of all IoT data in a common place and the use of cloud services to consume this data and provide useful applications. However, enforcing user privacy when sending sensitive information to the cloud is a challenge. This work presents and evaluates an architecture to provide privacy in the integration of IoT and cloud computing. The proposed architecture, called PROTeCt—Privacy aRquitecture for integratiOn of internet of Things and Cloud computing, improves user privacy by implementing privacy enforcement at the IoT devices instead of at the gateway, as is usually done. Consequently, the proposed approach improves both system security and fault tolerance, since it removes the single point of failure (gateway). The proposed architecture is evaluated through an analytical analysis and simulations with severely constrained devices, where delay and energy consumption are evaluated and compared to other architectures. The obtained results show the practical feasibility of the proposed solutions and demonstrate that the overheads introduced in the IoT devices are worthwhile considering the increased level of privacy and security.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/8/2664Internet of Thingscloud computingfault tolerancesecurity and privacy |
| spellingShingle | Luis Alberto Belem Pacheco Eduardo Adilio Pelinson Alchieri Priscila América Solís Mendez Barreto Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things † Sensors Internet of Things cloud computing fault tolerance security and privacy |
| title | Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things † |
| title_full | Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things † |
| title_fullStr | Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things † |
| title_full_unstemmed | Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things † |
| title_short | Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things † |
| title_sort | device based security to improve user privacy in the internet of things † |
| topic | Internet of Things cloud computing fault tolerance security and privacy |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/8/2664 |
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