Why IoT security is failing. The Need of a Test Driven Security Approach

Abstract

Internet of Things has evolved very quickly in recent years, being used by more and more people in many industries such as medical, automotive, energy, etc. This ecosystem brought with it multiple security issues that led to a significant growth of the daily challenges for cyber security professionals, and to novel types of cyber-attacks worldwide. In this paper, we discuss the existing vulnerabilities and attacks in the context of Internet of Things, followed by a proposal of a monitoring and security testing framework that analyzes and evaluates a complex IoT application from the incipient phase throughout its developing process.