The art of mapping IoT devices in networks

Improperly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been commandeered by bot herders and other malicious attackers. Organisations need a way to identify and track these IoT devices, which are often brought in unofficially by users. But network administrators face a number of challenges in track...

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Published inNetwork security Vol. 2018; no. 4; pp. 8 - 15
Main Authors Bajpai, Pranshu, Sood, Aditya K, Enbody, Richard J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2018
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Summary:Improperly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been commandeered by bot herders and other malicious attackers. Organisations need a way to identify and track these IoT devices, which are often brought in unofficially by users. But network administrators face a number of challenges in tracking IoT devices across their organisation. Improperly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been exploited by bot herders and other malicious attackers. So organisations need a way to identify and track these devices. Pranshu Bajpai, Aditya Sood and Richard J Enbody look at the difficulty of defining identifying characteristics of IoT devices due to their immensely diverse nature. They offer a model to identify IoT devices in networks using a variety of scanning techniques and they discuss the pros and cons of discovery techniques, presenting results from actual scans.
ISSN:1353-4858
1872-9371
DOI:10.1016/S1353-4858(18)30033-3