Internet of Things Security

Rethinking Network Security for the Internet of Things

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has quickly moved from concept to reality, with estimates that the number of deployed IoT devices will rise to 25 billion in

  1. However, studies show that many IoT devices have serious security vulnerabilities. Moreover, the limitations of IoT devices and scale of networks of IoT devices often make traditional IT security approaches impractical. This project takes a first-principles approach to rethinking network security and address these concerns for IoT networks: (1) scalable alternatives to simple perimeter defenses; (2) new methods to manage security in deployed networks of IoT devices; and (3) new security policies with sufficient generality to administer IoT devices and networks in many diverse use-cases. By providing a principled architecture to secure IoT deployments, the project will help realize the full potential societal benefits of IoT. The project will result in the development of novel open-source tools, modeling abstractions, algorithms, and prototype implementations that will reduce the time to deploy novel IoT security solutions, and make the results of the project available to the community.
  1. IEEE S&P
    CANnon: Reliable and Stealthy Remote Shutdown Attacks via Unaltered Automotive Microcontrollers
    Kulandaivel, Sekar, Jain, Shalabh, Guarajardo, Jorge, and Sekar, Vyas
    In IEEE Sympoosium on Security and Privacy 2021
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  2. HotEdge
    Towards an Architecture for Trusted Edge IoT Security Gateways
    McCormack, Matt, Vasudevan, Amit, Liu, Guyue, Echeverrı́a, Sebastián, O’Meara, Kyle, Lewis, Grace A., and Sekar, Vyas
    In 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing, HotEdge 2020, June 25-26, 2020 2020
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  3. IoTDI
    Learning Context-Aware Policies from Multiple Smart Homes via Federated Multi-Task Learning
    Yu, Tianlong, Li, Tian, Sun, Yuqiong, Nanda, Susanta, Smith, Virginia, Sekar, Vyas, and Seshan, Srinivasan
    In Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, IoTDI 2020, Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020 2020
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  4. Sensys
    All that GLITTERs: Low-Power Spoof-Resilient Optical Markers for Augmented Reality
    Sharma, Rahul Anand, Dongare, Adwait, Miller, John, Wilkerson, Nicholas, Cohen, Daniel, Sekar, Vyas, Dutta, Prabal, and Rowe, Anthony
    In 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2020, Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020 2020
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  5. USENIX Login
    Building an Nmap for Your Car
    Kulandaivel, Sekar, Goyal, Tushar, Agrawal, Arnav Kumar, and Sekar, Vyas
    login Usenix Mag. 2019
  6. USENIX Security
    CANvas: Fast and Inexpensive Automotive Network Mapping
    Kulandaivel, Sekar, Goyal, Tushar, Agrawal, Arnav Kumar, and Sekar, Vyas
    In 28th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2019, Santa Clara, CA, USA, August 14-16, 2019 2019
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  7. NDSS
    PSI: Precise Security Instrumentation for Enterprise Networks
    Yu, Tianlong, Fayaz, Seyed Kaveh, Collins, Michael P., Sekar, Vyas, and Seshan, Srinivasan
    In 24th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2017, San Diego, California, USA, February 26 - March 1, 2017 2017
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  8. Hotnets
    Handling a trillion (unfixable) flaws on a billion devices: Rethinking network security for the Internet-of-Things
    Yu, Tianlong, Sekar, Vyas, Seshan, Srinivasan, Agarwal, Yuvraj, and Xu, Chenren
    In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 16 - 17, 2015 2015
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