Security in Internet of Things: Issues, Challenges and Solutions

In the recent past, Internet of Things (IoT) has been a focus of research. With the great potential of IoT, there comes many types of issues and challenges. Security is one of the main issues for IoT technologies, applications, and platforms. In order to cover this key aspect of IoT, this paper reviews the research progress of IoT, and found that several security issues and challenges need to be considered and briefly outlines them. Efficient and functional security for IoT is required to ensure data anonymity, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, access control, and ability to identify, as well as heterogeneity, scalability, and availability must be taken into the consideration. Considering these facts, by reviewing some of the latest researches in the IoT domain, new IoT solutions from technical, academic, and industry sides are provided and discussed. Based on the findings of this study, desirable IoT solutions need to be designed and deployed, which can guarantee: anonymity, confidentiality, and integrity in heterogeneous environments.