Towards a Secure Web-Based Smart Homes

Smart-Home technology is a growing trend that allows technology to be combined into every-day living experience. However, Home automation and security threats are rated to become some of the biggest contemporary issues to tackle. Securing a smart home’s Network requires a leverage of various protocols, technologies, machines, tools, and procedures to defend data and decrease threats. In this paper, we propose a new system that will help overcome a number of attacks directed at smart home networks. The proposed system constitutes a smart-home environment, fog computing, and cloud networks, where we would apply some protocols at the base layer to support redundancy when fail-over occurs. We also apply cookie-box flow control with a very high bandwidth that aims to generate a safe 3-way handshake with a virtual web server in the fog layer to help prevent or limit DDoS SYN flooding attacks to the web-server. Besides, we conduct a query tokenization technique between the client and virtual webserver to detect any SQL injection attacks directed to the webserver. We provide the fog layer with a hash-based security system between the virtual web server and the primary one to prevent accessing sensitive data. Experimental results show that our proposed scheme produces a fully integrated security system that can protect smart-homes or any mission-critical sites by decreasing the number of attacks and malware programs that can target users while they are navigating the web.