Development and Evaluation of a Security Agent for Internet of Things

Abstract

The proposed security agent, Internet of Things Active Management Unit (IoTAMU), provides confidentiality of IoT networks via the following capabilities: (1) authentication, (2) firewall, (3) encryption, and ( 4) spoofing. To test the spoofer's effect, an Identical Device Model Classifier (IDMC) is developed, which measures the similarities of the observed network signatures of each pair of devices, and recognize identical model devices. The IDMC performs well in baseline network settings without the spoofer, achieving 100 precision, recall, and specificity at high threshold (SS>0.9). When the spoofer is enabled, none of the identical pairs are identified at high threshold, and upto 66 identical pairs are identified at lower thresholds(SS>0.8, 0.7). Overall, the spoofer is able to sufficiently modify the observed network signatures of each device; the observed differences between each pair increase overall (p-value = 0.01132) at 120 spoofed samples, making it more difficult to identify similar devices. Finally, the experiments in this work show the spoofer has a negligible effect on network congestion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 2020
Accession Number
AD1104615

Entities

People

  • Youngjun Park

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Mining
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Internet Of Things
  • Local Area Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transport Protocols
  • United States Government
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Networking

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - Internet of Things