Security Risks and Issues in IoT Technology

IoT
ABSTRACT – The term IoT refers to the
internet of thing that connects physical devices with
each other by using internet connectivity. It has the
potential to connect two or more physical devices
with other networks in order to exchange data or
information. Smart architecture is one of the best
applications of the internet of thing that control and
monitor the equipment and components of
architecture systems. Security is one of the common
issues faced by the internet of thing technology
which impacts on the personal devices and networks
linked with internet connectivity (Yang, Wu, Yin,
Li, & Zhao, 2017). The objective of this research is
to analyse security and privacy issues occurred on
the internet of thing technology and recommend
several techniques for reducing security issues and
threats. It is observed that there are various kinds of
security challenges occurred in the field of IoT
technology, for example, denial of service attack,
phishing attack, malware, cyber-crimes, conflict-
related issues, DDOS attack and so on. Thisresearch
study focuses on the fundamental concept of IoT
technology and security related issues occurred in
IoT devices (Alrawais, Alhothaily, Hu, & Cheng,
2017). We have selected this topic for the research
because it is a very common topic for research and
numbers of research papers published in the last few
years which can help for a better understanding of
security issues. Moreover, it is very important to
identify the risk and threats linked with the internet
of thing and computer devices. Therefore, it is
recommended that consumers should adopt a
firewall, encryption and use authentic servers during
the communication process. This research study
shows the security risks and issues associated with
the internet of thing technology.
Keywords— IoT, security, privacy
INTRODUCTION
The following report is all about addressing the
security and privacy issues in Internet of things
(IoT). Internet of things (IoT) can be used for
connecting physical devices with each other by
making use of internet for establishing connectivity
among the given devices. It comes up with potential
of connecting various physical devices with the
associated network for making an exchange of
required data and information. Smart architecture
can be considered to be as one most suitable
application of Internet of Things (IoT) that can

control and monitor the given equipment’s. It merely
tends to highlight the security components of the
given architecture. Security can be considered as one
of the biggest problem that is being encountered by
IoT technology which affect the personal devices
and network that is completely linked with internet
connectivity. The main notion of this research is all
about finding the security and privacy that occurred
on the internet platform. Apart from this, there are
some technologies which can be used for analysing
the given security and issues of privacy which take
place on the internet platform. At present, there are
large number of technologies. It is being
recommended for making use of various technique
for minimizing the overall threat and issues of
security.
In the coming pages of the report, an idea has
been provided respect to overview of the applied
technologies. After that, the relevant technology and
its overall involvement has been described in details.
Various kind of challenges has been discussed in
these area. An identification has been done with
respect to various gap in this technology.
Overview of involved technology
IoT may be said as a sprawling set of effective and
innovative technologies. This technology mainly
uses the structure of a network connected devices
that are embedded within the physical environment.
There are devices that uses IoT that they are
connected to the internet for gathering information
with the help of sensors or reach out t the world with
the help of actuators. This technology has evolved
regarding the convergence of technologies that are
wireless into the electronic devices (Lee & Lee,
2015). This also involves the connection of real time
analytics, wireless sensor network, control system
automation, embedded systems, commodity sensors
and many more. This technology may also be
defined as the extension of the internet connectivity
into other physical electronic devices. In the modern
day market the technoliogy of IoT pertains with
many of the other electronic devices such as smart
home, thermostats, security cameras and many more
that helps us in the daily work (Dlamini & Johnston,
2016).
Relevant technology and its Involvement
This technology is relevantly associated with many
devices as well as appliances. These are discussed
below:
 Smart Home: IoT devices has helped the
home automation system to have an
extensive growth. This devices can perform
various works such as heating, lighting, air
conditioning as well as media and security
systems (Jalali et al., 2019). The long term
benefits while using the smart home IoT

devices may include the savings of energy
that is assured by the automatic turn off of
the li8ghts as well as the devices associated
with the home automation.
 Elder care: One of the most important and
valuable uses of the IoT devices may be
explained as the fact that it provides an
enhanced and effective level of assistance to
the elder persons or to the persons with
disability. The IoT devices uses the assistive
technology within the devices that implicates
the connection of the devices with the
commands of the needful persons.
 Medical and healthcare: The IoT devices are
very useful in the field of Medical Care. The
Smart Health Care devices helps the medical
sector to provide the effective services to the
customers (Lohan et al., 2018). The devices
that are identified within this sector are
remote health monitoring system as well as
emergency notification systems. Many of the
health care units have also started the
implementation of the smart beds that will
likely to be very useful to the patients in the
near future.
In addition to these the IoT has also
encouraged some important areas such as
Agriculture, Transportation, metropolitan
scale deployments and many more.
Highlight the challenges in the area
It is observed that there are various kinds of security
challenges occurred in the field of IoT technology,
for example, phishing attack, cyber-crimes, denial of
service attack, malware, conflict-related issues,
DDOS attack and many more. This research study
focuses on the fundamental concept of IoT
technology and security related issues occurred in
IoT devices (Alrawais, Alhothaily, Hu, & Cheng,
2017). We have selected this topic for the research
because it is a very common topic for research as
well as numbers of research papers that had been
published in the last few years which can help for a
better understanding of various security issues.
Moreover, it is very important to identify the risk
and threats linked with the internet of thing as well
as computer devices (Shang, Yu & Droms, 2016).
The challenges that are faced by this particular field
are as follows
Security: security is considered as one of the biggest
challenges in the field of IoT, increasing the total
number of devices would automatically increase the
opportunity to exploit various security vulnerabilities
(Yang, Wu & Yin, 2017). Devices that have been
designed poorly can result in exposing the user data