scholarly journals An Attribute-Based Collaborative Access Control Scheme Using Blockchain for IoT Devices

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Bing Li ◽  
Ben Liu ◽  
Jiaxin Wu ◽  
Yazhou Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Authorized Access ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) benefits our lives by integrating physical devices to the real world and offers a crucial internet infrastructure for future civilization. Because IoT devices are widely distributed and restricted in resources, it is difficult for them to adopt traditional security methods to resist malicious attacks. Unauthorized access to IoT devices, which results in severe privacy and security problems, has become a major challenge that has impeded IoT technology from being widely adopted. Therefore, the access control for IoT devices urgently needs to be improved when dealing with authorization issues. In this paper, we propose an attribute-based access control scheme that provides decentralized, flexible, and fine-grained authorization for IoT devices. Blockchain is utilized to provide authentic and reliable credentials. More importantly, a verifiable collaboration mechanism is designed to meet the needs of controlled access authorization in emergencies. Authority nodes are constructed to execute major computation tasks and interact with the blockchain. The security analysis shows that our scheme can reliably guarantee the security of authorized access. More than security assurance, a proof-of-concept prototype has been implemented to prove that our scheme is scalable, efficient, and accommodates IoT devices well.

scholarly journals Object-Specific Role-Based Access Control

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Mundbrod ◽  
Manfred Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Specific Role ◽  
Role Based Access Control ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Specific Support ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
Role Based

The proper management of privacy and security constraints in information systems in general and access control in particular constitutes a tremendous, but still prevalent challenge. Role-based access control (RBAC) and its variations can be considered as the widely adopted approach to realize authorization in information systems. However, RBAC lacks a proper object-specific support, which disallows establishing the fine-grained access control required in many domains. By comparison, attribute-based access control (ABAC) enables a fine-grained access control based on policies and rules evaluating attributes. As a drawback, ABAC lacks the abstraction of roles. Moreover, it is challenging to engineer and to audit the granted privileges encoded in rule-based policies. This paper presents the generic approach of object-specific role-based access control (ORAC). On one hand, ORAC enables information system engineers, administrators and users to utilize the well-known principle of roles. On the other hand, ORAC allows realizing the access to objects in a fine-grained way where required. The approach was systematically established according to well-elicited key requirements for fine-grained access control in information systems. For the purpose of evaluation, the approach was applied to real-world scenarios and implemented in a proof-of-concept prototype demonstrating its feasibility and applicability.

scholarly journals Hybrid Role and Attribute Based Access Control Applied in Information Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Maria Penelova
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Role Based Access Control ◽  
Accounting Information System ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
Role Based

Abstract It this paper it is proposed a new access control model – Hybrid Role and Attribute Based Access Control (HRABAC). It is an extension of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). HRABAC is designed for information systems and enterprise software and combines the advantages of RBAC and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). HRABAC is easy configurable, fine-grained and supports role hierarchies. The proposed model HRABAC describes the access control scheme in Laravel package laravelroles/rolespermissions, which is developed by the author of the paper, as an answer to the requirements of practice of fine-grained and easy configurable access control solution. Laravel is chosen, because it is the most popular and the most widely used PHP framework. The package laravelroles/rolespermissions is developed on Laravel so that maximum number of programmers could use it. This package contains working and tested functionalities for managing users, roles and permissions, and it is applied in accounting information system.

scholarly journals A Fine-Grained IoT Data Access Control Scheme Combining Attribute-Based Encryption and Blockchain

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xiaofeng Lu ◽  
Songbing Fu ◽  
Cheng Jiang ◽  
Pietro Lio
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Distributed Storage ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Data Access Control ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Control Scheme

IoT technology has been widely valued and applied, and the resulting massive IoT data brings many challenges to the traditional centralized data management, such as performance, privacy, and security challenges. This paper proposes an IoT data access control scheme that combines attribute-based encryption (ABE) and blockchain technology. Symmetric encryption and ABE algorithms are utilized to realize fine-grained access control and ensure the security and openness of IoT data. Moreover, blockchain technology is combined with distributed storage to solve the storage bottleneck of blockchain systems. Only the hash values of the data, the hash values of the ciphertext location, the access control policy, and other important information are stored on the blockchain. In this scheme, smart contract is used to implement access control. The results of experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme can effectively protect the security and privacy of IoT data and realize the secure sharing of data.

scholarly journals Rogue Device Mitigation in the Internet of Things: A Blockchain-Based Access Control Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Uzair Javaid ◽  
Furqan Jameel ◽  
Umair Javaid ◽  
Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan ◽  
Riku Jäntti
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Iot Devices

Recent technological developments in wireless and sensor networks have led to a paradigm shift in interacting with everyday objects, which nurtured the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). However, low-powered nature of IoT devices generally becomes a hindrance that makes them vulnerable to a wide array of attacks. Among these, the emergence of rogue devices is quickly becoming a major security concern. Rogue devices are malicious in nature which typically execute different kinds of cyberattacks by exploiting the weaknesses of access control schemes in IoT environments. Therefore, access control is one of the crucial aspects of an IoT ecosystem that defines an entry point for a device or a user in the network. This paper investigates this issue and presents an access control scheme by integrating an IoT network with blockchain technology, thereby arguing to replace the traditional centralized IoT-server architecture with a decentralized one. The blockchain is used with smart contracts to establish a secure platform for device registration. Due to this reason, the IoT devices are first required to register themselves and access the network via contracts thereafter. Moreover, the contracts host a device registry, the access control list, to grant or deny access to devices. This allows the proposed scheme to authorize registered devices only and block unregistered ones, which facilitates the mitigation of rogue devices. To demonstrate the feasibility and improvements of the proposed scheme, security analysis along with in-depth performance evaluation are conducted, where the obtained results indicate its applicability. A case study is also formulated with a comparative analysis that confirms the superior performance of the proposed scheme for low-powered IoT systems.

scholarly journals Security-Oriented Architecture for Managing IoT Deployments

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1315
Author(s):  
André Zúquete ◽  
Hélder Gomes ◽  
João Amaral ◽  
Carlos Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Public Key Infrastructure ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Asymmetric Cryptography ◽  
Access Control Policies ◽  
Public Keys ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Assuring security and privacy is one of the key issues affecting the Internet of Things (IoT), mostly due to its distributed nature. Therefore, for the IoT to thrive, this problem needs to be tackled and solved. This paper describes a security-oriented architecture for managing IoT deployments. Our main goal was to deal with a fine-grained control in the access to IoT data and devices, to prevent devices from being manipulated by attackers and to avoid information leaking from IoT devices to unauthorized recipients. The access control is split: the management of authentication and access control policies is centered on special components (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Controllers), which can be distributed or centralized, and the actual enforcement of access control decisions happens on the entities that stay in the path to the IoT devices (Gateways and Device Drivers). The authentication in the entire system uses asymmetric cryptography and pre-distributed unique identifiers derived from public keys; no Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used. A Kerberos-like ticket-based approach is used to establish secure sessions.

scholarly journals Hyperledger Fabric Access Control System for Internet of Things Layer in Blockchain-Based Applications

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1054
Author(s):  
Adnan Iftekhar ◽  
Xiaohui Cui ◽  
Qi Tao ◽  
Chengliang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Access Control System ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Gain Access

Blockchain-based applications are gaining traction in various application fields, including supply chain management, health care, and finance. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a critical component of these applications since it allows for data collection from the environment. In this work, we integrate the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain and IoT devices to demonstrate the access control and establish the root of trust for IoT devices. The Hyperledger Fabric is designed to be secure against unwanted access and use through encryption protocols, access restrictions, and cryptography algorithms. An attribute-based access control (ABAC) mechanism was created using Hyperledger Fabric components only to gain access to the IoT device. Single board computers based on the ARM architecture are becoming increasingly powerful and popular in automation applications. In this study, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B based on ARM64 architecture is used as the IoT device. Because the ARM64 architecture is not supported by default, we build executable binaries and Docker images for the ARM64 architecture, using the Hyperledger Fabric source code. On an IoT device, we run the fabric node in native mode to evaluate the executable binaries generated for the ARM64 architecture. Through effective chaincode execution and testing, we successfully assess the Hyperledger fabric blockchain implementation and access control mechanism on the ARM64 architecture.

Centralized, Distributed, and Everything in between

2022 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Sophie Dramé-Maigné ◽  
Maryline Laurent ◽  
Laurent Castillo ◽  
Hervé Ganem
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Security Properties ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Security Of Iot

The Internet of Things is taking hold in our everyday life. Regrettably, the security of IoT devices is often being overlooked. Among the vast array of security issues plaguing the emerging IoT, we decide to focus on access control, as privacy, trust, and other security properties cannot be achieved without controlled access. This article classifies IoT access control solutions from the literature according to their architecture (e.g., centralized, hierarchical, federated, distributed) and examines the suitability of each one for access control purposes. Our analysis concludes that important properties such as auditability and revocation are missing from many proposals while hierarchical and federated architectures are neglected by the community. Finally, we provide an architecture-based taxonomy and future research directions: a focus on hybrid architectures, usability, flexibility, privacy, and revocation schemes in serverless authorization.

scholarly journals Practical Multiauthority Attribute-Based Access Control for Edge-Cloud-Aided Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Kaiqing Huang ◽  
Xueli Wang ◽  
Zhiqiang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Data Access Control ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
Access Privileges

With the assistance of edge computing which reduces the heavy burden of the cloud center server by using the network edge servers, the Internet of Things (IoTs) architectures enable low latency for real-time devices and applications. However, there still exist security challenges on data access control for the IoT. Multiauthority attribute-based encryption (MA-ABE) is a promising technique to achieve access control over encrypted data in cross-domain applications. Based on the characteristics and technical requirements of the IoT, we propose an efficient fine-grained revocable large universe multiauthority access control scheme. In the proposed scheme, the most expensive encryption operations have been executed in the user’s initialization phase by adding a reusable ciphertext pool besides splitting the encryption algorithm to online encryption and offline encryption. Massive decryption operations are outsourced to the near-edge servers for reducing the computation overhead of decryption. An efficient revocation mechanism is designed to change users’ access privileges dynamically. Moreover, the scheme supports ciphertext verification. Only valid ciphertext can be stored and transmitted, which saves system resources. With the help of the chameleon hash function, the proposed scheme is proven CCA2-secure under the q-DPBDHE2 assumption. The performance analysis results indicate that the proposed scheme is efficient and suitable in edge computing for the IoT.

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