4 Policy-Driven Security Architecture for Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructure

Kallol Krishna Karmakar, Vijay Varadharajan, and Uday Tupakula

University of Newcastle

DOI: 10.1201/9781003199410-4

4.1 Introduction

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being touted as the next big technological trend by both academic researchers and industry players. The IoT refers to the connection of ‘things’ in the real world via the internet so that these ‘things’ can communicate with each other as well as other internet services. Thus, IoT enables the connection of the physical world with the cyber world, allowing remote monitoring and control of physical objects from the cyber world [15,19].

The IoT is increasingly being used in different applications ranging ...

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