Security Challenges in IoT Platforms | Article

Running head: SECURITY CHALLENGES IN IOT PLATFORMS
Security Challenges in IoT Platforms
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

SECURITY CHALLENGES IN IOT PLATFORMS
1
Orifama, D.G. and Okoro, H., 2020. Security Challenges in IoT Platforms and Possible
Solutions. Computing, 8(1), pp.1-7.
Identification of the article
Published on 18th of February 2020 by science publishing group, this article
successfully covers up most of the common security challenges faced while using the IoT
platforms. The two scholars of this journal Orifama and Okoro (2020), has successfully
identified some of the solutions of the security challenges of the IoT platforms. The name of
the journal where this article is published is the Internet of things and Cloud Computing.
Secondary data was used by the scholars in this article
Summary of range, contents and argument of the article
The article begins with the definition of an IoT based device and helps in
understanding the use of the devices on our society. Both the three layers and the five layer
architecture of the IoT based devices are graphically represented in this article, the following
segment of this paper introduces the security challenges of IoT devices across the different
layers. The scholars of this article have also provided in-depth details of the countermeasures
which can be very much effective to address the threats coming from the security challenges.
Critical discussion of key issues
According to Orifama and Okoro (2020), node tempering and, physical damage and
sleep denial attack, Node jamming, injection of malicious codes are the security concerns of
the physical layer of the IoT architecture. The researchers stated that traffic analysis attacks,
sinkhole attack, DoS attack, and Sybil Attack are the network layer attacks. Whereas software
vulnerabilities and phishing attacks are common in the network layer of the IoT devices.
Based on the discussion of Toma et al. (2019), lack of hard-coded passwords, hardware