A new security architecture for the IoT world
There’s little question the “Internet of Things” will eventually be enormous. Using Internet technology to make our homes and devices smarter is easy to understand, but is also a great challenge, both technological and social.
One of the the biggest enabler of the Internet of Things was the introduction of IPV6 in 2011. As IPV4 had only approximately 4 billion addresses, IPV6 has a total of 340 undecillion IP addresses. This number enables us to deal with growing industry and needs of Internet of Things in the years to come. International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates 200 billion connected devices by 2021, with more than 30 billion of them being autonomous devices.
But there is one very important factor — security and access control.
Today’s vision of IoT does not provide, however, for the security and management of connected devices, which is a necessary condition of the IoT industry to realize its full potential. Typically IoT devices operate over a LAN running ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4 ) or similar wireless LAN protocols like Z-Wave, Thread and WeMo.
While these protocols can provide encryption for local devices, they do not currently have a mechanism to authenticate and govern the devices on the network.
The CYBERUS KEY User Authentication protocol originally designed to authenticate users securely, presents an ideal architecture to also authenticate connected devices and to govern their interaction with users and each other.
See how it works:
As CYBERUS KEY may use in its original version the sonic signal to transmit OTP it is designed in the way that OTP my be transmitted also in Mobile Only version using pseudo Out-of-Band connection.
A CYBERUS KEY concept of identification and authentication may also be translated into various protocols that are in use for communication between devices in IoT environment.
This way CYBERUS KEY may the critical element for the IoT world’s security architecture.
