Analysis of the security solutions implemented in current Internet of Things platforms

Abstract

Our society finds itself in a point where it becomes more and more bounded by the use of technology in each activity, no matter how simple it could be. Following this social trend, the IT paradigm called Internet of Things (IoT) aims to group each technological end-point that has the ability to communicate, under the same "umbrella". In recent years many private or public organizations have discussed on this topic and tried to provide IoT Platforms that will allow the grouping of devices scattered worldwide. Yet, while information flows and a certain level of scalability and connectivity have been assured, one key component, security, remains a vulnerable point of IoT Platforms. In this paper we describe the main features of some of these “umbrellas”, either open source or with payment, while analyzing and comparing the security solutions integrated in each one of these IoT Platforms. Moreover, through this paper we try to raise users and organizations awareness of the possible vulnerabilities that could appear in any moment, when using one of the presented IoT Platforms.