scholarly journals Identity Management Systems for the Internet of Things: A Survey Towards Blockchain Solutions

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Zhu ◽  
Youakim Badr
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
Identity Management Systems ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Identity Management

The Internet of Things aims at connecting everything, ranging from individuals, organizations, and companies to things in the physical and virtual world. The digital identity has always been considered as the keystone for all online services and the foundation for building security mechanisms such as authentication and authorization. However, the current literature still lacks a comprehensive study on the digital identity management for the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we firstly identify the requirements of building identity management systems for IoT, which comprises scalability, interoperability, mobility, security and privacy. Then, we trace the identity problem back to the origin in philosophy, analyze the Internet digital identity management solutions in the context of IoT and investigate recent surging blockchain sovereign identity solutions. Finally, we point out the promising future research trends in building IoT identity management systems and elaborate challenges of building a complete identity management system for the IoT, including access control, privacy preserving, trust and performance respectively.

scholarly journals Text Data Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things: Threats, Challenges, and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umair Khadam ◽  
Muhammad Munwar Iqbal ◽  
Meshrif Alruily ◽  
Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Plain Text ◽  
Ownership Verification ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In our daily life, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is everywhere and used in many more beneficial functionalities. It is used in our homes, hospitals, fire prevention, and reporting and controlling the environmental changes. Data security is the crucial requirement for IoT since the number of recent technologies in different domains is increasing day by day. Various attempts have been made to cater the user’s demands for more security and privacy. However, a huge risk of security and privacy issues can arise among all those benefits. Digital document security and copyright protection are also important issues in IoT because they are distributed, reproduced, and disclosed with extensive use of communication technologies. The content of books, research papers, newspapers, legal documents, and web pages are based on plain text, and the ownership verification and authentication of such documents are essential. In the current domain of the Internet of Things, limited techniques are available for ownership verification and copyright protection. In the said perspective, this study includes the discussion about the approaches of text watermarking, IoT security challenges, IoT device limitations, and future research directions in the area of text watermarking.

scholarly journals Holistic Privacy-Preserving Identity Management System for the Internet of Things

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Bernal Bernabe ◽  
Jose L. Hernandez-Ramos ◽  
Antonio F. Skarmeta Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Management System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Identity Management System ◽  
Anonymous Credential ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Security and privacy concerns are becoming an important barrier for large scale adoption and deployment of the Internet of Things. To address this issue, the identity management system defined herein provides a novel holistic and privacy-preserving solution aiming to cope with heterogeneous scenarios that requires both traditional online access control and authentication, along with claim-based approach for M2M (machine to machine) interactions required in IoT. It combines a cryptographic approach for claim-based authentication using the Idemix anonymous credential system, together with classic IdM mechanisms by relying on the FIWARE IdM (Keyrock). This symbiosis endows the IdM system with advanced features such as privacy-preserving, minimal disclosure, zero-knowledge proofs, unlikability, confidentiality, pseudonymity, strong authentication, user consent, and offline M2M transactions. The IdM system has been specially tailored for the Internet of Things bearing in mind the management of both users’ and smart objects’ identity. Moreover, the IdM system has been successfully implemented, deployed, and tested in the scope of SocIoTal European research project.

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