Special
Issue on IoT Security:
Regular Issue:
Editor's Message:
Welcome
to this special issue of Reliability Magazine.
Just a decade ago,
Internet-of-Things (IoT) was regarded as unrealistic
fantasy. It was first presented as an innovative idea
to stimulate the development of modern networking
technologies. Within the last few years, as the
maturity of tools, devices, equipment, infrastructure
and services, IoT has become one of the most popular
technologies in the 21st century. IoT
intends to provide smart connectivity of devices on
the Internet, ranging from home automation and
entertainment products to industrial machinery and
smart cities. It is designed to enable a variety of
services by exchanging data with manufacturers,
operators and consumers. Ideally, every IoT device can
be uniquely identified and thus managed remotely, and
is able to interconnect with other IoT devices in an
automatic fashion.
Business processes can be empowered
by this new technology, and various industries
redesign their business models and processes along the
IoT paradigm. For example, manufactures can monitor
the status of things or predict when an IoT device is
out of order. However, experts warn that the growing
number of interconnected “thingbots” could endanger
the IoT business. To maximize the social and economic
benefit of the technology, security issues of
interoperability, data management, platform and
protocol validation have to be addressed.
In this special issue, we have
collected two articles, which discuss security issues
for IoT applications from different points of view.
The first article, “Secure and Safe
Automated Vehicle Platooning” is by Jiafa Liu from the
Computer and Information Science Department at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn. This article discusses security
issues when IoT is applied to automotive applications.
Cyber attacks highlighted on an automated platoon
system could have the most severe level of safety
impact with large scale car crash and argue the
importance of safety-security co-design for safety
critical cyber physical systems.
The second article, “Anonymous and
Secure Fault-Tolerable Routing Protocol for Overlay
Networks” is by Chia-Chen Wu from the Computer Science
Department at National Chiao-Tung University. The
routing security is addressed for overlay networks and
IoT applications. A novel protocol (SAFE) providing
anonymity against adversaries is presented in the
article. By randomly selecting intermediate nodes to
forward data and by using layered encryption to hide
an initiator from the intermediate nodes, SAFE can
provide initiator and responder anonymities and fault
tolerance of node failures. The fault tolerance
provided by SAFE results in the reduced cost and
frequency of path reconstruction, and the increased
robustness of network against degradation attacks.
We hope you enjoy the articles in
this issue, and that you find these contributions to
the discussion of security of IoT applications within
the reliability engineering profession useful. We look
forward to your comments and suggestions.
Yu-Lun
Huang
Professor and Director, National Chiao-Tung
University (NCTU)
Editor, IEEE Reliability Special Issue on
Trustworthy Computing and Cybersecurity
ylhuang@cn.nctu.edu.tw
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