Securing the IoT: Critical Research Challenges

Prof. Sean W. Smith ( Dartmouth College )

4May
14:00 4th May 2018 ( week 2, Trinity Term 2018 )
Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building

In the current Internet of Computers (IoC), paradigms and techniques have emerged to manage security risks, at least somewhat. However, the Internet of Things is different from the IoC, and these differences cause many of these paradigms to stop working. With the deep embedding of the IoT in the physical world, the consequences may have significant physical impact. Drawing on power and healthcare IT as prototypes of the coming IoT, this talk surveys what I believe are critical problem areas and discusses some approaches to finding solutions.

Speaker bio

Sean W. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. He has been working in real-world information security---attacks and defences, for industry and government---since before there was a Web; at IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, he designed the security architecture for (and helped code and test) the IBM 4758 secure coprocessor, and then led the formal modelling and verification work that earned it the world’s first FIPS 140-1 Level 4 security validation. His recent book "The Internet of Risky Things" (O'Reilly, 2017) explores the IoT security space.

Prof. Smith is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College in Trinity Term 2018.