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  • Open Access
115 Citations
15,067 Views
28 Pages

A Security Framework for the Internet of Things in the Future Internet Architecture

  • Xiruo Liu,
  • Meiyuan Zhao,
  • Sugang Li,
  • Feixiong Zhang and
  • Wade Trappe

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent trend that extends the boundary of the Internet to include a wide variety of computing devices. Connecting many stand-alone IoT systems through the Internet introduces many challenges, with security being fron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
1,062 Views
7 Pages

This paper examines the users’ perspective on the security of Internet banking in Australia within the social context. This user-centered design approach supplements the technological and industrial approaches to security. The user-centered research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,452 Views
17 Pages

Verification of an Evolving Security Scheme in the Internet of Vehicles

  • Weiyang Xin,
  • Hanning Zhang,
  • Chunxiang Xu,
  • Jiangyuan Yao,
  • Deshun Li and
  • Ting Jin

28 October 2023

The security scheme of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) protects the vehicles from network attacks. However, during the experimental deployment of the IoV, people usually pay attention to its function and performance, and only develop a security scheme...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,650 Views
2 Pages

Information and Future Internet Security, Trust and Privacy

  • Weizhi Meng,
  • Thanassis Giannetsos and
  • Christian D. Jensen

12 December 2022

The Internet has rapidly grown into a distributed and collaborative network with over one billion users, e.g., the Internet of Things (IoT). The future Internet will become the core of the next information infrastructure in regard to computation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,193 Views
30 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) employs sensors and the Internet for information exchange, enabling intelligent identification, monitoring, and management, which has deeply impacted various sectors such as power, medical care, and security, transforming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,018 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2015

The vehicular internet will drive the future of vehicular technology and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Whether it is road safety, infotainment, or driver-less cars, the vehicular internet will lay the foundation for the future of road tra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
217 Citations
32,765 Views
51 Pages

Internet of Things: Security and Solutions Survey

  • Pintu Kumar Sadhu,
  • Venkata P. Yanambaka and
  • Ahmed Abdelgawad

30 September 2022

The overwhelming acceptance and growing need for Internet of Things (IoT) products in each aspect of everyday living is creating a promising prospect for the involvement of humans, data, and procedures. The vast areas create opportunities from home t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
23,918 Views
22 Pages

Due to the widespread use of the Internet of Things (IoT), organizations should concentrate their efforts on system security. Any vulnerability could lead to a system failure or cyberattack, which would have a large-scale impact. IoT security is a pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,303 Views
55 Pages

SoK: Delegated Security in the Internet of Things

  • Emiliia Geloczi,
  • Felix Klement,
  • Patrick Struck and
  • Stefan Katzenbeisser

30 April 2025

The increased use of electronic devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) leads not only to an improved comfort of living but also to an increased risk of attacks. IoT security has thus become an important research field. However, due to limits on perf...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,856 Views
33 Pages

10 October 2021

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can be seen as an extension of the Internet of Things (IoT) services and applications to industry with the inclusion of Industry 4.0 that provides automation, reliability, and control in production and manufacturi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
17,087 Views
26 Pages

Internet of Nano-Things (IoNT): A Comprehensive Review from Architecture to Security and Privacy Challenges

  • Abdullah Alabdulatif,
  • Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne,
  • Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal,
  • Khairul Eahsun Fahim and
  • Rufai Yusuf Zakari

3 March 2023

Throughout the course of human history, owing to innovations that shape the future of mankind, many technologies have been innovated and used towards making people’s lives easier. Such technologies have made us who we are today and are involved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,795 Views
60 Pages

10 January 2014

The next generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) is currently about to be introduced in many organizations. However, its security features are still a very novel area of expertise for many practitioners. This study evaluates guidelines for secure...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,165 Views
36 Pages

Defense and Security Mechanisms in the Internet of Things: A Review

  • Sabina Szymoniak,
  • Jacek Piątkowski and
  • Mirosław Kurkowski

7 January 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) transforms traditional technology by introducing smart devices into almost every field, enabling real-time monitoring and automation. Despite the obvious benefits, the rapid deployment of IoT presents numerous security ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
13,166 Views
35 Pages

Security Requirements for the Internet of Things: A Systematic Approach

  • Shantanu Pal,
  • Michael Hitchens,
  • Tahiry Rabehaja and
  • Subhas Mukhopadhyay

19 October 2020

There has been a tremendous growth in the number of smart devices and their applications (e.g., smart sensors, wearable devices, smart phones, smart cars, etc.) in use in our everyday lives. This is accompanied by a new form of interconnection betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
14,689 Views
30 Pages

2 April 2013

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the Internet-like structure of billions of interconnected constrained devices, denoted as “smart objects”. Smart objects have limited capabilities, in terms of computational power and memory, and might be batter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,704 Views
21 Pages

29 July 2020

As accessibility of networked devices becomes more and more ubiquitous, groundbreaking applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) find their place in many aspects of our society. The exploitation of these devices is the main reason for the cyberatt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,495 Views
25 Pages

An Overview of Safety and Security Analysis Frameworks for the Internet of Things

  • Alhassan Abdulhamid,
  • Sohag Kabir,
  • Ibrahim Ghafir and
  • Ci Lei

The rapid progress of the Internet of Things (IoT) has continued to offer humanity numerous benefits, including many security and safety-critical applications. However, unlocking the full potential of IoT applications, especially in high-consequence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,808 Views
16 Pages

In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments, vehicles and roadside units (RSUs) communicate predominantly through public channels. These vehicles and RSUs exchange various data, such as traffic density, location, speed, etc. Therefore, secure and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,563 Views
17 Pages

Advanced Security Framework for Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Abid Ali,
  • Abdul Mateen,
  • Abdul Hanan and
  • Farhan Amin

The stimulus to carry out this research was to identify and propose a secure framework for the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to the massive accessibility and interconnection of IoT devices, systems are at risk of being exploited by hackers. Therefore...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
11,269 Views
37 Pages

8 January 2024

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a technology that is connected to the public internet and is a subnetwork of the Internet of Things (IoT) in which vehicles with sensors are connected to a mobile and wireless network. Numerous vehicles, users, thing...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,901 Views
5 Pages

10 July 2020

This editorial gives an overview of the papers included in the Special Issue on “Security, Privacy, and Trustworthiness of Sensor Networks and Internet of Things” of Sensors. The context of the special issue theme is first briefly describ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,562 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Internet Use on Citizens’ Trust in Government: The Mediating Role of Sense of Security

  • Zicheng Wang,
  • Huiting Liu,
  • Tianfeng Li,
  • Lijuan Zhou and
  • Mingxing Zhou

15 January 2023

With the rapid development of communication technologies, the Internet use has become the main channel for citizens to obtain information and knowledge. It has been widely established that Internet use can have a significant impact on citizens’...

  • Review
  • Open Access
111 Citations
16,845 Views
22 Pages

Security and Privacy Management in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): A Synthesis

  • Rachida Hireche,
  • Houssem Mansouri and
  • Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

17 August 2022

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has become a strategic priority for future e-healthcare because of its ability to improve patient care and its scope of providing more reliable clinical data, increasing efficiency, and reducing costs. It is no w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
8,948 Views
31 Pages

Prospect of Internet of Medical Things: A Review on Security Requirements and Solutions

  • Pintu Kumar Sadhu,
  • Venkata P. Yanambaka,
  • Ahmed Abdelgawad and
  • Kumar Yelamarthi

24 July 2022

With the widespread and increasing use of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in all aspects of daily life, a hopeful future for people, data, and processes is emerging. Extensive spans allow for an integrated life cycle to be created from home to enter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,023 Views
60 Pages

16 February 2017

We propose interdependent defense (IDD) games, a computational game-theoretic framework to study aspects of the interdependence of risk and security in multi-agent systems under deliberate external attacks. Our model builds upon interdependent securi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,767 Views
29 Pages

The Role of Internet of Things and Security Aspects in STEM Education

  • Valentina Terzieva,
  • Malinka Ivanova,
  • Edita Djambazova and
  • Svetozar Ilchev

24 June 2025

In the last decade, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education has rapidly evolved and increasingly makes use of innovative technologies. This paper aims to explore and analyze the research on integrating the Internet of Thing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,858 Views
15 Pages

Safety, Security and Privacy in Machine Learning Based Internet of Things

  • Ghulam Abbas,
  • Amjad Mehmood,
  • Maple Carsten,
  • Gregory Epiphaniou and
  • Jaime Lloret

Recent developments in communication and information technologies, especially in the internet of things (IoT), have greatly changed and improved the human lifestyle. Due to the easy access to, and increasing demand for, smart devices, the IoT system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,728 Views
20 Pages

QPUF: Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions for Security-by-Design of Industrial Internet-of-Things

  • Venkata K. V. V. Bathalapalli,
  • Saraju P. Mohanty,
  • Chenyun Pan and
  • Elias Kougianos

This research investigates the integration of quantum hardware-assisted security into critical applications, including the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), Smart Grid, and Smart Transportation. The Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions (QPUF) ar...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,956 Views
10 Pages

With virtual assistants, both changes and serious conveniences are provided in human life. For this reason, the use of virtual assistants is increasing. The virtual assistant software has started to be produced as separate devices as well as working...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,946 Views
34 Pages

Exploring the Potential of Microservices in Internet of Things: A Systematic Review of Security and Prospects

  • Abir El Akhdar,
  • Chafik Baidada,
  • Ali Kartit,
  • Mohamed Hanine,
  • Carlos Osorio García,
  • Roberto Garcia Lara and
  • Imran Ashraf

21 October 2024

With the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) systems, ensuring robust security measures has become paramount. Microservices Architecture (MSA) has emerged as a promising approach for enhancing IoT systems security, yet its adoption in this conte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,895 Views
24 Pages

Blockchain Technology for Information Security of the Energy Internet: Fundamentals, Features, Strategy and Application

  • Zilong Zeng,
  • Yong Li,
  • Yijia Cao,
  • Yirui Zhao,
  • Junjie Zhong,
  • Denis Sidorov and
  • Xiangcheng Zeng

17 February 2020

In order to ensure the information security, most of the important information including the data of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in the energy internet is currently transmitted and exchanged through the intranet or the carrier communicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,424 Views
27 Pages

Device-Based Security to Improve User Privacy in the Internet of Things

  • Luis Alberto Belem Pacheco,
  • Eduardo Adilio Pelinson Alchieri and
  • Priscila América Solís Mendez Barreto

14 August 2018

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 a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Citations
16,878 Views
26 Pages

Multi-Layer Blockchain-Based Security Architecture for Internet of Things

  • Houshyar Honar Pajooh,
  • Mohammad Rashid,
  • Fakhrul Alam and
  • Serge Demidenko

24 January 2021

The proliferation of smart devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks creates significant security challenges for the communications between such devices. Blockchain is a decentralized and distributed technology that can potentially tackle the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,779 Views
21 Pages

This paper mainly summarizes three aspects of information security: Internet of Things (IoT) authentication technology, Internet of Vehicles (IoV) trust management, and IoV privacy protection. Firstly, in an industrial IoT environment, when a user wa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
100 Citations
11,356 Views
25 Pages

Towards a Secure and Sustainable Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Requirements, Design Challenges, Security Techniques, and Future Trends

  • Bharat Bhushan,
  • Avinash Kumar,
  • Ambuj Kumar Agarwal,
  • Amit Kumar,
  • Pronaya Bhattacharya and
  • Arun Kumar

3 April 2023

Recent advances in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, mini-hardware manufacturing, and micro computing have led to the development of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is integrated with medical devices in order to enable better treatment,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
12,955 Views
57 Pages

A Holistic Analysis of Internet of Things (IoT) Security: Principles, Practices, and New Perspectives

  • Mahmud Hossain,
  • Golam Kayas,
  • Ragib Hasan,
  • Anthony Skjellum,
  • Shahid Noor and
  • S. M. Riazul Islam

24 January 2024

Driven by the rapid escalation of its utilization, as well as ramping commercialization, Internet of Things (IoT) devices increasingly face security threats. Apart from denial of service, privacy, and safety concerns, compromised devices can be used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,309 Views
13 Pages

9 February 2020

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of IoT devices has increased exponentially. Therefore, we have put forward higher security requirements for the management, transmission, and storage of massive IoT data. However,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
128 Citations
13,798 Views
29 Pages

24 May 2021

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) offers numerous opportunities for developing industrial applications such as smart grids, smart cities, smart manufacturers, etc. By utilising these opportunities, businesses engage in creating the Industria...

  • Article
  • Open Access
393 Views
41 Pages

12 December 2025

The rapid growth of web-based applications has attracted increasing attention from cybercriminals, particularly within the expanding field of the internet of transportation things, which has diverse applications across industries such as healthcare....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,872 Views
19 Pages

Decentralized Machine Learning Framework for the Internet of Things: Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Efficiency in Cloud-Integrated Environments

  • José Gelson Gonçalves,
  • Muhammad Shoaib Ayub,
  • Ainur Zhumadillayeva,
  • Kanagat Dyussekeyev,
  • Sunggat Ayimbay,
  • Muhammad Saadi,
  • Renata Lopes Rosa and
  • Demóstenes Zegarra Rodríguez

25 October 2024

The Internet of things (IoT) presents unique challenges for the deployment of machine learning (ML) models, particularly due to constraints on computational resources, the necessity for decentralized processing, and concerns regarding security and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,430 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2023

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is used in various industries to achieve industrial automation and intelligence. Therefore, it is important to assess the network security situation of the IIoT. The existing network situation assessment metho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
11,834 Views
22 Pages

Internet of Medical Things Privacy and Security: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Trends from a New Perspective

  • Firuz Kamalov,
  • Behrouz Pourghebleh,
  • Mehdi Gheisari,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Sherif Moussa

10 February 2023

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), an application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the medical domain, allows data to be transmitted across communication networks. In particular, IoMT can help improve the quality of life of citizens and older p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,342 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2019

With the widespread nature of wireless internet and internet of things, data have bloomed everywhere. Under the scenario of big data processing, privacy and security concerns become a very important consideration. This work focused on an approach to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,298 Views
20 Pages

Architectural Threats to Security and Privacy: A Challenge for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

  • Yasser Khan,
  • Mazliham Bin Mohd Su’ud,
  • Muhammad Mansoor Alam,
  • Sayed Fayaz Ahmad,
  • Nur Agus Salim and
  • Nasir Khan

The internet of things (IoT) is one of the growing platforms of the current era that has encircled a large population into its domain, and life appears to be useless without adopting this technology. A significant amount of data is generated from an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
107 Citations
12,393 Views
31 Pages

Security and Privacy Issues in Medical Internet of Things: Overview, Countermeasures, Challenges and Future Directions

  • Mohamed Elhoseny,
  • Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne,
  • Mohammed I. Alghamdi,
  • Rakesh Kumar Mahendran,
  • Akber Abid Gardezi,
  • Hesiri Weerasinghe and
  • Anuradhi Welhenge

21 October 2021

The rapid development and the expansion of Internet of Things (IoT)-powered technologies have strengthened the way we live and the quality of our lives in many ways by combining Internet and communication technologies through its ubiquitous nature. A...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,417 Views
35 Pages

18 August 2025

Integration of sensing, communication, computing, and intelligence (ISCCI) represents a pivotal advancement in B5G and 6G technologies, offering transformative potential for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). As IoV systems become increasingly integral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,813 Views
17 Pages

3 January 2019

Information security is the foundation for building trust between the Internet of Things (IoT) and its users. Due to the sharp increase of information quantity and the limitation of hardware resources, it is difficult to maintain the high performance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
8,638 Views
21 Pages

23 September 2018

With the uninterrupted revolution of communications technologies and the great-leap-forward development of emerging applications, the ubiquitous deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) is imperative to accommodate constantly growing user demands and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,238 Views
24 Pages

30 August 2023

The trustworthiness of a system is not just about proving the identity or integrity of the hardware but also extends to the data, control, and management planes of communication between devices and the software they are running. This trust in data an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,653 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2019

The rapidly growing segment of the Internet of Things (IoT) makes the security threats more prominent than ever. The research around communication security and cybersecurity in such networks is still a challenge, mainly due to the typically limited e...

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