Integration of Cloud Computing with Internet of Things

2Measures for Improving IoT Security

Richa Goel¹*, Seema Sahai¹, Gurinder Singh¹ and Saurav Lall²

¹Amity International Business School, Noida, India

²Azure IoT, Microsoft Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USA

Abstract

In today’s world of Digital Transformation, IoT banking/online transaction is a major point of concern for the user. IoT security plays a vital role to develop the trust of end users for making frequent use of the same. There have been IoT security breaches in recent years. As a result, immoral hackers have ample opportunities to intercept and change or misuse the information. Through this paper we are going to discuss various issuse/problems faced in terms of IoT security along with the measure to be chosen to achieve higher security while going for online transactions.

Keywords: IoT security, digital transformation, breach of trust

2.1 Introduction

Through the World Wide Web, we’ve entered into a brand new era of connectivity. “Things have identities and virtual personalities operating in smart places using intelligent interfaces to connect and communicate inside social, environmental and user contexts [7].” More than twenty billion devices were connected with each other in 2017. This means that the potential risk of cyber-attacks is going on increasingly, equally.

Gartner’s special report indicates that there is a high level of risk to all the IoT devices, whether it is the platform, their operating systems or even the other devices to which they are connected ...