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Concerns about security on the Internet of Things (IoT) cover data privacy and integrity, access control and availability. IoT abuse in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is a major issue, as the limited computing, communications, and power resources of typical IoT devices are prioritised in implementing functionality rather than security features. Incidents involving attacks have been reported, but without clear characterisation and evaluation of threats and impacts. The main purpose of this work is to mitigate DDoS attacks against the IoT, by studying new technologies and identifying possible vulnerabilities and potential malicious uses, and building protections against them. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is effective in mitigating DDoS attacks on IoT.
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Ali, M.A., Motawa, D., Al-Harby, F. (2018). Internet of Things and Distributed Denial of Service Mitigation. In: Nicholson, D. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 593. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60585-2_3
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