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The security s challenges of an Internet of Things

By Milica D. Djekic

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not that new concept beginning with these days. It’s more like the
name of the current state being correlated with the technological progress and development.
This new paradigm is closely linked with many smart solutions using the Internet to
communicate with each other. The main challenge with this sort of advancements is their
security.

The open question here would be if we could make these sophisticated solutions being securer
using the better link cryptography, communication protocols or end-to-end encryption. Through
this article, we would attempt to discuss some of these ideas as well as provide a deep insight
into how this sort of technological achievements could offer the stronger defense.

The IoT as a paradigm of today

The IoT is quite interesting and exciting topic attracting the attention worldwide. The developed
societies could not imagine their smart solutions without this sort of communication, while
people from a developing world could meet these solutions from time to time.

The IoT is not a new concept, it’s just the consequence of a technological development and
progress running at a quite fast pace. Simply, today’s mechatronics devices being connected
with each other using the Internet communications are called the IoT paradigm.

Beginning with the robotized
industrial assets over smart cars
until intelligent printing
equipment – all of those would
represent the IoT solutions. It’s
simply about many mechanical,
electrical, electronic and
software elements being
correlated with each other to
communicate through the
Internet being wired or wireless.

So, what’s the biggest challenge
to this infrastructure? Someone
would say it’s its robustness, but
we would suggest it’s perfectly

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