COSMOS: Centinela colaborativa, perfecta y adaptable para la Internet de las cosas

The Internet of Things (IoT) became established during the last decade as an emerging technology with considerable potentialities and applicability. Its paradigm of everything connected together penetrated the real world, with smart devices located in several daily appliances. Such intelligent objects are able to communicate autonomously through already existing network infrastructures, thus generating a more concrete integration between real world and computer-based systems. On the downside, the great benefit carried by the IoT paradigm in our life brings simultaneously severe security issues, since the information exchanged among the objects frequently remains unprotected from malicious attackers. The paper at hand proposes COSMOS (Collaborative, Seamless and Adaptive Sentinel for the Internet of Things), a novel sentinel to protect smart environments from cyber threats. Our sentinel shields the IoT devices using multiple defensive rings, resulting in a more accurate and robust protection. Additionally, we discuss the current deployment of the sentinel on a commodity device (i.e., Raspberry Pi). Exhaustive experiments are conducted on the sentinel, demonstrating that it performs meticulously even in heavily stressing conditions. Each defensive layer is tested, reaching a remarkable performance, thus proving the applicability of COSMOS in a distributed and dynamic scenario such as IoT. With the aim of easing the enjoyment of the proposed sentinel, we further developed a friendly and ease-to-use COSMOS App, so that end-users can manage sentinel(s) directly using their own devices (e.g., smartphone)

TRIS: A Three-Rings IoT Sentinel to Protect Against Cyber-Threats

The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as an emerging technology with considerable potentialities. Its paradigm of everything connected together invaded the real world, with smart objects located in several daily appliances able to communicate autonomously through already existing network infrastructures. On the downside, the great advance carried by IoT in our life brings at the same time serious security issues, since the information flow among the objects remains mainly unprotected from malicious attackers. The paper at hand proposes TRIS, a novel sentinel to protect smart environments from cyber threats. Our sentinel shields the IoT devices using three defense rings, resulting in a more accurate protection. Additionally, we discuss the actual deployment of the sentinel using open-source tools. Exhaustive experiments are conducted on the sentinel, showing that the deployed sentinel performs meticulously even in heavily stressing conditions, thus demonstrating the applicability of TRIS in a distributed and dynamic scenario such as IoT.El Internet de las cosas (IoT) se considera una tecnología emergente con potencialidades considerables. Su paradigma de todo conectado entre sí invadió el mundo real, con objetos inteligentes ubicados en varios aparatos cotidianos capaces de comunicarse de forma autónoma a través de infraestructuras de red ya existentes. Como contrapartida, el gran avance que ha supuesto el IoT en nuestra vida trae consigo al mismo tiempo graves problemas de seguridad, ya que el flujo de información entre los objetos queda mayoritariamente desprotegido frente a atacantes malintencionados. El artículo que nos ocupa propone TRIS, un novedoso centinela para proteger los entornos inteligentes de las ciberamenazas. Nuestro centinela protege los dispositivos IoT mediante tres anillos de defensa, lo que da como resultado una protección más precisa. Además, analizamos la implementación real del centinela utilizando herramientas de código abierto. Se llevan a cabo experimentos exhaustivos en el centinela, lo que demuestra que el centinela desplegado funciona meticulosamente incluso en condiciones de mucho estrés, lo que demuestra la aplicabilidad de TRIS en un escenario distribuido y dinámico como IoT

TRIS: A Three-Rings IoT Sentinel to Protect Against Cyber-Threats

The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as an emerging technology with considerable potentialities. Its paradigm of everything connected together invaded the real world, with smart objects located in several daily appliances able to communicate autonomously through already existing network infrastructures. On the downside, the great advance carried by IoT in our life brings at the same time serious security issues, since the information flow among the objects remains mainly unprotected from malicious attackers. The paper at hand proposes TRIS, a novel sentinel to protect smart environments from cyber threats. Our sentinel shields the IoT devices using three defense rings, resulting in a more accurate protection. Additionally, we discuss the actual deployment of the sentinel using open-source tools. Exhaustive experiments are conducted on the sentinel, showing that the deployed sentinel performs meticulously even in heavily stressing conditions, thus demonstrating the applicability of TRIS in a distributed and dynamic scenario such as IoT.El Internet de las cosas (IoT) se considera una tecnología emergente con potencialidades considerables. Su paradigma de todo conectado entre sí invadió el mundo real, con objetos inteligentes ubicados en varios aparatos cotidianos capaces de comunicarse de forma autónoma a través de infraestructuras de red ya existentes. Como contrapartida, el gran avance que ha supuesto el IoT en nuestra vida trae consigo al mismo tiempo graves problemas de seguridad, ya que el flujo de información entre los objetos queda mayoritariamente desprotegido frente a atacantes malintencionados. El artículo que nos ocupa propone TRIS, un novedoso centinela para proteger los entornos inteligentes de las ciberamenazas. Nuestro centinela protege los dispositivos IoT mediante tres anillos de defensa, lo que da como resultado una protección más precisa. Además, analizamos la implementación real del centinela utilizando herramientas de código abierto. Se llevan a cabo experimentos exhaustivos en el centinela, lo que demuestra que el centinela desplegado funciona meticulosamente incluso en condiciones de mucho estrés, lo que demuestra la aplicabilidad de TRIS en un escenario distribuido y dinámico como IoT

COSMOS: Centinela colaborativa, perfecta y adaptable para la Internet de las cosas

The Internet of Things (IoT) became established during the last decade as an emerging technology with considerable potentialities and applicability. Its paradigm of everything connected together penetrated the real world, with smart devices located in several daily appliances. Such intelligent objects are able to communicate autonomously through already existing network infrastructures, thus generating a more concrete integration between real world and computer-based systems. On the downside, the great benefit carried by the IoT paradigm in our life brings simultaneously severe security issues, since the information exchanged among the objects frequently remains unprotected from malicious attackers. The paper at hand proposes COSMOS (Collaborative, Seamless and Adaptive Sentinel for the Internet of Things), a novel sentinel to protect smart environments from cyber threats. Our sentinel shields the IoT devices using multiple defensive rings, resulting in a more accurate and robust protection. Additionally, we discuss the current deployment of the sentinel on a commodity device (i.e., Raspberry Pi). Exhaustive experiments are conducted on the sentinel, demonstrating that it performs meticulously even in heavily stressing conditions. Each defensive layer is tested, reaching a remarkable performance, thus proving the applicability of COSMOS in a distributed and dynamic scenario such as IoT. With the aim of easing the enjoyment of the proposed sentinel, we further developed a friendly and ease-to-use COSMOS App, so that end-users can manage sentinel(s) directly using their own devices (e.g., smartphone)

COSMOS: Collaborative, Seamless and Adaptive Sentinel for the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) became established during the last decade as an emerging technology with considerable potentialities and applicability. Its paradigm of everything connected together penetrated the real world, with smart devices located in several daily appliances. Such intelligent objects are able to communicate autonomously through already existing network infrastructures, thus generating a more concrete integration between real world and computer-based systems. On the downside, the great benefit carried by the IoT paradigm in our life brings simultaneously severe security issues, since the information exchanged among the objects frequently remains unprotected from malicious attackers. The paper at hand proposes COSMOS (Collaborative, Seamless and Adaptive Sentinel for the Internet of Things), a novel sentinel to protect smart environments from cyber threats. Our sentinel shields the IoT devices using multiple defensive rings, resulting in a more accurate and robust protection. Additionally, we discuss the current deployment of the sentinel on a commodity device (i.e., Raspberry Pi). Exhaustive experiments are conducted on the sentinel, demonstrating that it performs meticulously even in heavily stressing conditions. Each defensive layer is tested, reaching a remarkable performance, thus proving the applicability of COSMOS in a distributed and dynamic scenario such as IoT. With the aim of easing the enjoyment of the proposed sentinel, we further developed a friendly and ease-to-use COSMOS App, so that end-users can manage sentinel(s) directly using their own devices (e.g., smartphone)