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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Dual Role of Smartphones in IoT Security
verfasst von : Kui Ren
Erschienen in: Information Security and Cryptology
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Abstract
The world is entering the era of Internet of Things (IoT), where the interconnected physical devices of various forms, often embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, etc., jointly perform sophisticated sensing and computing tasks and provide unprecedented services. Centering around this new paradigm is the ubiquitous smartphone. Equipped with abundant sensing, computing and networking capabilities, the smartphone is widely recognised as one of the key enablers towards IoT and the driving force that brings a great many innovative services under the way.
Despite the promising aspects, along with the rise of IoT is the increasing concerns on cybersecurity. The smartphone in this new context, however, plays a very intriguing dual role, due to the fact that it is deeply interleaved into almost every aspect of our daily living. On the one hand, it could be used as a low-cost attacking device, trying to penetrate into the scenarios that have never been considered before. On the other hand, it is also the first line of defense in the security forefront. In both cases, we need to carefully study and comprehensively understand the capability of smartphones, as well as their security implications. In this talk, we will use two examples to illustrate this observation and hopefully promote further researches along this line.