Authors:
Pragati Siddhanti
1
;
Petra Maria Asprion
2
and
Bettina Schneider
2
Affiliations:
1
IBM Client Innovation Center Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 4, 3073 Gümligen and Switzerland
;
2
Competence Center Cyber Security and Resilience, Institute of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, FHNW, Peter Merian-Str. 86, Basel and Switzerland
Keyword(s):
Cybersecurity by Design, Cyber Risks, Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Good Practices, Smart Homes.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Communication Networking
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet of Things
;
Sensor Networks
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being increasingly adopted by businesses to improve operations, processes, and products. While it opens endless opportunities, it also presents tremendous challenges especially in the area of cyber risks and related security controls. With billions of interconnected devices worldwide, how do we ensure that they are sufficiently secure and resilient? As a reasonable solution, ‘Cybersecurity by Design’ seems a promising approach. In this research, ‘Smart Homes’ - as IoT containing products – are selected as unit of analysis because they are exposed to numerous cyber threats with corresponding adverse consequences for the life, safety and health of residents. By aiming to secure Smart Home Environments (SHEs) from cyber threats, we adopted ‘design science’ as methodology and developed a holistic approach, highlighting ‘good practices’, which can be applied in every phase of the SHEs product lifecycle. In addition to these good practices, a ‘Cyber Security
Maturity Assessment’ tool for SHEs has been developed. Both artefacts have already been validated and incrementally improved, and are now awaiting their future application and further enhancements.
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