An Investigation into Privacy Issues of IoT Devices and Networks

This report investigates the multifaceted privacy issues associated with the Internet of Things (IoT). It begins with an introduction highlighting the increasing use of IoT devices and the resulting security and privacy concerns, particularly device and physical security. The report poses critical research questions about the root causes of IoT security issues and potential solutions. A background study explores existing literature, citing various scholars who have discussed device security, data security, network security, operating system flaws, and server issues. The study identifies gaps in the literature, such as the impact of different security issues on IoT users. The report then outlines the research plan, including data collection from secondary resources and the use of peer-reviewed articles. A Gantt chart is included to detail the task and publication plans. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of the research in understanding IoT security and privacy challenges. The report also covers networking difficulties, protocol problems, and the privacy implications of technologies like face identification. It highlights the importance of corporate transparency and government regulations regarding IoT devices. The report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of IoT privacy issues and their potential impact on individuals and organizations.

Running head: PRIVACY ISSUES OF IOT
Privacy issues of IoT
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background Study......................................................................................................................3
Aims and Significance.............................................................................................................10
Research Plan...........................................................................................................................10
Publication Plan...................................................................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The increasing use of the IoT based devices has lots of privacy issues such as the
device security and physical security which is a big issues for most of the IoT users. The
primary research questions of the paper are presented as follows:
 What are the reasons behind the security issues of IoT based devices?
 How can be privacy issue be addressed?
Data will be collected from the secondary resources. The gaps in the collected
resources will be addressed as 30 peer review articles shall be argued in the same topic. The
ensuing section of this proposal will be discussing the background of the study presented the
opinion of numerous scholar who have stated their opinion about the selected topic. This
section will be ensue by a Gantt chart where the task plan and the publication plan will be
identified. This paper can be used for future researchers as it can successfully identify the
reason behind the security issues of IoT based devices.
Background Study
According to Abomhara (2015), there are different security issue allied with the use
of the IoT based devices which are used in our society as well as in commercial organizations
such as the device security and data security. The researcher of the paper provided a thorough
explanation of the physical security concerns of the IoT based devices. The impact of the
device security was highlighted in the paper in a professional manner. The investigator of the
paper helped in understanding the two different categories of data which are very much
vulnerable to the privacy issues of the IoT devices such as the ransomware (Lin at al. 2017).
This paper have numerous case studies which supports the discussions made in the paper, this
paper is very much reliable, but the paper have few limitations as well as it did not show the

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impact of the security related concerns on the IoT users. However, as stated by Alaba et al.
(2017), the prime issues which can have a direct impact on the users of IoT based devices is
the network security issues. The researcher of the paper stated that the device security is one
of the most negligible issues of the IoT based devices (Li et al. 2016). The most substantial
gains of this paper is that it helps in reflecting most of the probable network security issues
and the main limitation of the paper is that it does not highlights the impact of the network
security issues (Malina et al. 2016). Thus the literature gap between these two papers is both
of them have not discussed which of these issues have the maximum impact on the IoT users.
As mentioned by Alrawais et al. (2017), operating security issues is one of the most
important issues of most of the IoT based devices. The investigator of this resource stated
that the security issues of the IoT based devices arises mostly due to the flaws of the
operating system. The researcher of the paper highlighted that the data security issue of the
IoT based devices are mostly due to the flaws of their operating systems (Maple 2017). The
paper has both benefits as well as limitations. The most substantial advantage of the paper is
its identification of the operating security issues of the IoT devices which are increasingly
used in our society such as the temperature sensors which are connected to a network (Zhou
et al. 2017). The limitation of the paper it does not state the ways to reduce the threats
coming from the network security issues. At the same time Alur et al. (2016), declared that
the server issues of the IoT based devices is the main reason behind the security issues of the
IoT based devices. The investigator of this resource stated that the most of the network
security issues such as the DDoS occurs mainly due to the server security issues of the IoT
based devices (Li et al. 2018). This paper also has certain limitations as well. Most of the
discussions which are there in the paper are entirely in generalized manner. Thus, both
researchers of the paper contradicted in their opinion about the reason behind the security
issues of the IoT based devices.

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As discussed by Andrea et al. (2015), privacy of the users of the IoT devices is a huge
concern for most of the IoT devices. The researcher of the paper stated that the security
breaches can have an undesirable impact on the security measures of the IoT devices (Sicari
et al. 2015). The paper suggested that most of the global manufacturing organization who are
actively manufacturing most of the IoT devices must be understand the networking security
threats of IoT devices. The importance of the cyber surveillance was highlighted in the paper
as well (Li et al. 2015). The investigator of the paper highlighted that corporate transparency
of the IoT devices are very much desired regarding the usage of the IoT derives both in
global commercial organizations as well as in our society. As deliberated by Andrea,
Chrysostomou, and Hadjichristofi (2015), there are numerous networking difficulties
connected with the IoT based devices used in business enterprises in terms of the
configuration issues, compatibility issues of between the devices and the configurations
(Thierer 2015). The researcher of the paper highlighted the different categories of
networking issues which can have a direct impact on the security of the IoT devices
(Mehmood et al. 2017). The prime contribution of the paper is that it helps in identifying the
networking difficulties of the IoT devices, at the same time the paper also have limitations as
well as it does not discusses the ways to address these networking difficulties (Yang et al.
2017). However, as mentioned by Arias et al. (2015), there are numerous privacy issues
connected with the IoT watches which are used in our society in terms of the location settings
(Mendez, Papapanagiotou and Yang 2017). The compromise of the location settings can have
an undesirable impact on the users of the IoT devices. This paper also have few advantages
and disadvantages, the prime benefit of the paper is that it helps in identifying the privacy
issues coming from the IoT smart watches in terms of the location settings (Lee et al. 2015).
The main constraint of the paper is that it does not discusses the risk mitigation step to
resolve the above stated privacy issue (Weinberg et al. 2015). The research gap which can be

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identified from the above paper is that it does not discuss the ways to address the threats
coming from the networking issues as well as location settings.
As discussed by Borgohain, Kumar and Sanyal (2015), there are security concerns in
terms of the protocol problems which are faced by most of the IoT systems. The investigator
of the journal mentioned that the protocol issues comes mainly from the IoT devices which
are extensively used most of the manufacturing industries (Kumar, Veale and Srivastava
2016). The researchers of the paper stated that the security issues comes mainly due to the
secure vulnerabilities of the organizational network (Sfar et al. 2018). The researchers of the
paper stated that malicious activities can have a huge impact on the business growth of the
global Corporations as they uses high-end IoT devices in their business environment (Dorri,
Kanhere and Jurda 2016). The most significant benefit of the paper it identifies the protocol
issues of the IoT devices (Sadeghi, Wachsmann, and Waidner 2015). At the same time, it can
also be said that the paper have lot of limitations as well as the discussion of the paper are not
supported by case study.
As mentioned by Hu et al. (2017), there are security issues with face identification
techniques of the IoT based systems, these issues can have a huge financial impact in global
business organizations. The researcher of the paper stated that these security concerns can
have undesirable impact on both the employees as well as for the management team of
business organizations (Whitmore, Agarwal and Da 2015). The investigator also highlighted
about the stringent government regulations on most of the IoT devices which are used in the
production rooms of the business enterprises. The paper has both advantages as well as
disadvantages (Kolias et al. 2016). The main advantage of the paper is that it helps in
identifying the impact the privacy issues in global organizations (Stojkoska and Trivodaliev
2017). The research gap which can be identified from the above papers is it does not

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highlights the ways to address the protocol problems of the IoT devices at the same it can
also be said that security measures taken by the corporate organizations to deal with the
security threats were also not considered in these papers.
Aims and Significance
The overall objective of this research proposal is to focus on the safety and the
privacy challenges of IoT. All the specific safety concerns of IoT will be considered in the
paper.
Research Plan
This unit of the paper will be presenting the detailed description of the task plan and
the publication plan in the form of a Gantt chart.
Commotion Time frame
1-6
month
s
6-12
month
s
12-18
month
s
18-24
month
s
24-30
month
s
30-34
month
s
35-36
months
Selection and review of topic 
Selection of the data sources  
Forming the research plan 
Literature Review   
Review of the literature
review
 
Data analysis  
Finalizing the structure of the
paper
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Project Submission  
Interpretation of collected
data sets
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Preparation of the
publication plan

Selection of publishers  
Submitting the final work to
the publishers
 
Table 1: Detailed timeline of the tasks
(Source: Created by the author)
Publication Plan
All the secondary data which has been considered in the project background of the
paper are to be published to the future research purposes. All the data are very much reliable
as it is collected from peer reviewed sources. The data from this proposal can be used in
journal articles, conference paper, exhibition, creative thinking and design proposal. The
commissioner and the book publishers will be will targeted for the publication works. All
recent journals have been considered for the data collection procedure.
The five open questions which are have not been discussed in the paper are as followings:
 How can BYOD help in minimising security issues of IoT?
 How can open networks be a threat for IoT based devices?
 What are the security steps taken by the corporate organization to deal with the
privacy issues of the IoT products used in their working environment?
 How to disable universal plug and play?
 How to create separate network for IoT based devices?

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Conclusion
The proposal helps in understanding the numerous security as well as most of the
privacy related issues allied with IoT based systems which are used in corporate officialdoms
as well as in our society.

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