A security survey of middleware for the Internet of Things
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computer Networks and Communications, Embedded Computing, Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Security and Privacy, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- Internet of Things, Security, Privacy, IoT, Middleware, Survey
- Copyright
- © 2015 Fremantle et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. A security survey of middleware for the Internet of Things. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1241v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1241v1
Abstract
The rapid growth of small Internet connected devices, known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is creating a new set of challenges to create secure, private infrastructures. The purpose of this paper is to review the current literature on the challenges and approaches to security and privacy in the Internet of Things, with an especial focus on how these aspects are handled in IoT middleware. We focus on IoT middleware because many systems are built from existing middleware and these inherit the underlying security properties of the middleware framework. The paper is composed of three main sections. Firstly, we look at the general security and privacy challenges around IoT. Secondly, we present a structured literature review of the available middleware and how security is handled in these middleware approaches. Finally, we draw a set of conclusions and identify further work in this area.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ Computer Science for review.