Project CISSAN

Proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) has fundamentally changed how different application environments, like homes, offices, infrastructure, smart buildings, or smart grids, are being used and operated. There is also a growing security need to support IoT systems. One of the main concerns is the impact that the different threats may have since attacks on IoT deployments could dramatically jeopardies IoT systems, people security, privacy and safety, while additionally IoT in itself can be used as an attack vector.

Widespread IoT networks are prone to similar malicious actions than other networks and devices, but physical tampering, injection and capturing of the nodes may be more probable in IoT networks than in other networks. Conventional security practices in IoT require substantial re-engineering due to technical constraints. Engineered-in security work is emphasized because the particularity of the Application Protocol Interfaces (APIs) available to users do not allow traditional security update mechanisms.

In this project, the aim is to build collective intelligence to the IoT network by the smart network nodes to enable a rich, diverse and wide ecosystem involving aspects such as devices, communications, interfaces, and people. Intelligent IoT networks should, e.g., notice tampered and injected devices, and they should recognize movements and capturing of their nodes. In addition, the IoT network should prevent its’ use as an attack surface.