Digital security for the Internet of Things
The project aims to shed light on digital trust from both developers 'and users' perspectives, ie. companies / organizations but also consumers. Digital trust has been identified as an important societal issue. Confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA triad Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) as well as established standards (eg ISO 27000) can guide developers. However, the question of trust in relation to the use phase should be clarified. The project's intended actors will consist of researchers from universities and institutes, authorities and product and service development companies.
The Internet of Things, IoT, bring increased risks that require constant development to manage new types of external threats. The threats become complex when different IoT units are connected in a system of products, services and users. This opens up new ways for cyber criminals, and the attacks become more invisible and complex to protect against. The maintenance of digital security across the entire product life cycle has proven to be costlier than its development. The question is where the developer's responsibility ends and the user takes over. Digital trust is a concept that, from the developers’ perspective, can be described as a confidence in the diverse relationships between businesses, individuals and IoT. Digital security is usually seen as a technical problem. Users' digital trust can make them assume that someone else is responsible for security. Since IoT devices increase in everyday life and work, digital trust hence becomes a societal concern that should also include what data is collected, how it is used, and who has access to it. The difference between the developer's responsibility, and the knowledge of digital security that the developer assumes users have need to be better understood. If so, IoT and digital services can be improved in respect of security, responsibility and value. The project aims to form a consortium that is able to develop a more suitable design methodology to guide practical development and safe use stages.
Digital security for the Internet of Things
Funder: Feasibility study in digital security and
digital infrastructure: Strengthened Swedish participation in international projects.
An announcement within the program Digital security and infrastructure, VINNOVA.
Contact
Åsa Ericson
- Professor
- 0920-492061
- asa.ericson@ltu.se
- Åsa Ericson
Johan Lugnet
- Associate Professor
- 0920-491201
- johan.lugnet@ltu.se
- Johan Lugnet
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