Intelligent Security Management and Control in the IoT

8The Contributions of Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence in Securing the IoT

Amal SAMMOUD¹, Omessaad HAMDI², Mohamed-Aymen CHALOUF³ and Nicolas MONTAVONT⁴

¹ SYSCOM, ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

² IEEE, IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France

³ IRISA, University of Rennes 1, Lannion, France

⁴ IRISA, IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France

8.1. Introduction

The Internet of Things (IoT) appears today in many domains such as surveillance, health, agriculture, etc. This new technology is based on connected physical objects able to communicate with one another, and also with other devices. The services offered thanks to the IoT are accessible to a user anywhere at any time (Dhillon and Kalra 2017). Security and protection of user privacy are a priority for this new technology to be fully accepted. To meet these security imperatives, biometrics as well as artificial intelligence could make it possible to provide fairly robust security solutions, well-adapted to the IoT.

In this chapter, we focus on the contributions of biometrics and artificial intelligence in optimizing the security of some IoT applications. In particular, we will study the most reliable security approaches, which are based on using biometric methods and artificial intelligence techniques to ensure safe authentication in the IoT.

This chapter is structured as follows. Section 8.2 presents the security requirements of the IoT and connected objects. In section 8.3, we introduce the principles of authentication based ...