Zigbee Security within the Framework of IoT

Abstract

The latest version of ZigBee offers improvement over many aspects like low power consumption, flexibility and inexpensive deployment. However problems persist as the enhanced protocol still has many security weaknesses. In this presentation we highlight relevant security concerns related to the latest ZigBee security features, then we propose countermeasure mechanisms to address some of these weaknesses. We also propose a new approach suitable for ZigBee enabled wireless sensor networks. The proposed solution improves security and decreases considerably the likelihood of successful attacks. Lastly we discuss the security and performance related to the proposed scheme.