Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy Aspects Related to Architecture, Connectivity and Collected Data.

By connecting everyday new Internet of Things (IoT) devices, new applications have been enabled, and existing ones have been improved. The IoT faced multifaceted issues for security and privacy because of its connected devices variety and heterogeneity. In fact, IoT devices are designed with no considerations of security and privacy issues, where they are developed mainly on the basis of features provided. Considering computational aspects, power capabilities, bandwidth communication and memory size, IoT devices are low resource devices. This may cause different security and privacy issues as only special authentication techniques and encryption algorithms can be applied. Due to the fact that these devices are used in different states and contexts, analyzing their security and privacy is considered to be an extremely complex task. Therefore, the research in this project will investigate various IoT devices security and privacy issues related to architecture, connectivity, and collected data. This aim will be accomplished using different security and privacy methodologies including application of privacy techniques and an advanced security framework for IoT applications. One of the motivations for this research is that the project findings can be used by industry researchers and academics for improving IoT security and privacy by choosing the best security mechanism. In order to achieve the project target objectives, the project methodology is divided into eight work packages including research background, IoT architecture, network connectivity, type of data collected, security and privacy methodologies (an application of privacy mechanisms and an advanced security testing framework), learned lessons and security issues, and their corresponding solutions, evaluation and documentation