2024/08/22 by Mohammad Ali Goudarzi, Arash Shaghaghi, Goudarzi, Mohammad +7
Computer Science · #Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.12081
openalex publication_date 2024/08/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Internet of Things (IoT) involves complex, interconnected systems and devices that depend on context-sharing platforms for interoperability and information exchange. These platforms are, therefore, critical components of real-world IoT deployments, making their security essential to ensure the resilience and reliability of these 'systems of systems'. In this paper, we take the first steps toward systematically and comprehensively addressing the security of IoT context-sharing platforms. We propose a framework for threat modelling and security analysis of a generic IoT context-sharing solution, employing the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Through an evaluation of various industry-funded projects and academic research, we identify significant security challenges in the design of IoT context-sharing platforms. Our threat modelling provides an in-depth analysis of the techniques and sub-techniques adversaries may use to exploit these systems, offering valuable insights for future research aimed at developing resilient solutions. Additionally, we have developed an open-source threat analysis tool that incorporates our detailed threat modelling, which can be used to evaluate and enhance the security of existing context-sharing platforms.