A blockchain future for internet of things security: a position paper

By Mandrita Banerjee, Junghee Lee, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. Digit. Commun. Networks, 2017

489 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly being found in civilian and military contexts, ranging from smart cities and smart grids to Internet-of-Medical-Things, Internet-of-Vehicles, Internet-of-Military-Things, Internet-of-Battlefield-Things, etc. In this paper, we survey articles presenting IoT security solutions published in English since January 2016. We make a number of observations, including the lack of publicly available IoT datasets that can be used by the research and practitioner communities. Given the potentially sensitive nature of IoT datasets, there is a need to develop a standard for sharing IoT datasets among the research and practitioner communities and other relevant stakeholders. Thus, we posit the potential for blockchain technology in facilitating secure sharing of IoT datasets (e.g., using blockchain to ensure the integrity of shared datasets) and securing IoT systems, before presenting two conceptual blockchain-based approaches. We then conclude this paper with nine potential research questions.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Blockchain for 5G-enabled IoT for industrial automation: A systematic review, solutions, and challenges (2020, methodology): “[98] implemented a cyber-security system based on Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to safeguard UAVs from external cyber attacks [99].”
Applying blockchain technology to improve agri-food traceability: A review of development methods, benefits and challenges (2020, background): “The solution to address the food safety and quality concerns is to improve traceability transparency, security, durability, and integrity (Feng et al., 2019; Tsang et al., 2018; Helo& Hao, 2019; Banerjee et al., 2018; Li et al., 2017).”
A Survey on the Internet of Things (IoT) Forensics: Challenges, Approaches, and Open Issues (2020, methodology): “Lone and Mir [58] implemented Ethereum Blockchain to secure the Chain of Custody, while Banerjee et al. [141] demonstrated how to track changes made to IoT device ﬁrmware, and automatically restore the original data in the event of tampering.”
Blockchain for Internet of Things: A Survey (2019, background): “The work of [5] presents a survey on IoT security and investigates the potentials of blockchain technologies as the solutions.”