Osama A. Khashan^1,*, Sultan Alamri², Waleed Alomoush³, Mutasem K. Alsmadi⁴, Samer Atawneh², Usama Mir⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3133-3158, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036217 - 31 March 2023

Abstract In recent times, technology has advanced significantly and is currently being integrated into educational environments to facilitate distance learning and interaction between learners. Integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) into education can facilitate the teaching and learning process and expand the context in which students learn. Nevertheless, learning data is very sensitive and must be protected when transmitted over the network or stored in data centers. Moreover, the identity and the authenticity of interacting students, instructors, and staff need to be verified to mitigate the impact of attacks. However, most of the current security and… More >

Qiang Zhi¹, Xiang Jiang¹, Hangying Zhang², Zhengshu Zhou³, Jianguo Ren¹, Tong Huang^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 389-402, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035576 - 20 January 2023

Abstract The lightweight encryption algorithm based on Add-Rotation-XOR (ARX) operation has attracted much attention due to its high software affinity and fast operation speed. However, lacking an effective defense scheme for physical attacks limits the applications of the ARX algorithm. The critical challenge is how to weaken the direct dependence between the physical information and the secret key of the algorithm at a low cost. This study attempts to explore how to improve its physical security in practical application scenarios by analyzing the masking countermeasures of ARX algorithms and the leakage causes. Firstly, we specify a More >

Hassen Sallay^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 429-444, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.030791 - 29 September 2022

Abstract Security breaches can seriously harm the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) environments. The damage can exceed financial and material losses to threaten human lives. Overcoming these security risks is challenging given IoT ubiquity, complexity, and restricted resources. Security intrusion management is a cornerstone in fortifying the defensive security process. This paper presents an integrated multilayered framework facilitating the orchestration of the security intrusion management process and developing security decision support systems. The proposed framework incorporates four layers with four dedicated processing phases. This paper focuses mainly on the analytical layer. We present… More >

Noman Mazhar^1,2, Rosli Saleh^1,*, Reza Zaba^1,3, Muhammad Zeeshan⁴, M. Muzaffar Hameed¹, Nauman Khan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3099-3118, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028285 - 16 June 2022

Abstract The advent of the latest technologies like the Internet of things (IoT) transforms the world from a manual to an automated way of lifestyle. Meanwhile, IoT sector open numerous security challenges. In traditional networks, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) have been the key player in the market to ensure security. The challenges to the conventional IDPS are implementation cost, computing power, processing delay, and scalability. Further, online machine learning model training has been an issue. All these challenges still question the IoT network security. There has been a lot of research for IoT based… More >

Muhammad Fahad Khan^1,2,*, Khalid Saleem¹, Mohammed Alotaibi³, Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi⁴, Eid Rehman², Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi², Muhammad Asif Gondal⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2679-2696, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027655 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Internet of Things is an ecosystem of interconnected devices that are accessible through the internet. The recent research focuses on adding more smartness and intelligence to these edge devices. This makes them susceptible to various kinds of security threats. These edge devices rely on cryptographic techniques to encrypt the pre-processed data collected from the sensors deployed in the field. In this regard, block cipher has been one of the most reliable options through which data security is accomplished. The strength of block encryption algorithms against different attacks is dependent on its nonlinear primitive which is… More >

K. A. Fasila^*, Sheena Mathew

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 2097-2114, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029637 - 18 May 2022

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has become widely used nowadays and tremendous increase in the number of users raises its security requirements as well. The constraints on resources such as low computational capabilities and power requirements demand lightweight cryptosystems. Conventional algorithms are not applicable in IoT network communications because of the constraints mentioned above. In this work, a novel and efficient scheme for providing security in IoT applications is introduced. The scheme proposes how security can be enhanced in a distributed IoT application by providing multilevel protection and dynamic key generation in the data uploading and

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Kun-Lin Tsai^1,2,*, Li-Woei Chen³, Fang-Yie Leu^4,5, Chuan-Tian Wu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 547-562, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026557 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Secure data communication is an essential requirement for an Internet of Things (IoT) system. Especially in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) systems, when important data are hacked, it may induce property loss or life hazard. Even though many IoT-related communication protocols are equipped with secure policies, they still have some security weaknesses in their IoT systems. LoRaWAN is one of the low power wide-area network protocols, and it adopts Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to provide message integrity and confidentiality. However, LoRaWAN's encryption key update scheme can be further improved.… More >

R. Bharathi^*, N. Parvatham

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 35-49, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020681 - 05 January 2022

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an essential role in connecting a small number of billion devices with people for diverse applications. The security and privacy with authentication are challenging work for IoT devices. A light-weight block cipher is designed and modeled with IoT security for real-time scenarios to overcome the above challenges. The light-weight PRESENT module with the integration of encryption (E)-decryption (D) is modeled and implemented on FPGA. The PRESENT module has 64-bit data input with 80/128/256-bit symmetric keys for IoT security. The PRESENT module performs16/32/64 round operations for state register and key… More >

Usman Ali^1,2, Mohd Yamani Idna Idris^1,3,*, Jaroslav Frnda⁴, Mohamad Nizam Bin Ayub¹, Roobaea Alroobaea⁵, Fahad Almansour⁶, Nura Modi Shagari¹, Insaf Ullah⁷, Ihsan Ali¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 2515-2532, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019800 - 07 December 2021

Abstract Industrial internet of things (IIoT) is the usage of internet of things (IoT) devices and applications for the purpose of sensing, processing and communicating real-time events in the industrial system to reduce the unnecessary operational cost and enhance manufacturing and other industrial-related processes to attain more profits. However, such IoT based smart industries need internet connectivity and interoperability which makes them susceptible to numerous cyber-attacks due to the scarcity of computational resources of IoT devices and communication over insecure wireless channels. Therefore, this necessitates the design of an efficient security mechanism for IIoT environment. In… More >

Taifeng Pan^*

Journal of Quantum Computing, Vol.3, No.4, pp. 161-171, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jqc.2021.025373 - 10 January 2022

Abstract The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has brought great convenience to people’s life. However, the security protection capability of IoT is weak and vulnerable. Therefore, more protection needs to be done for the security of IoT. The paper proposes an intrusion detection method for IoT based on multi GBDT feature reduction and hierarchical traffic detection model. Firstly, GBDT is used to filter the features of IoT traffic data sets BoT-IoT and UNSW-NB15 to reduce the traffic feature dimension. At the same time, in order to improve the reliability of feature filtering, this… More >