Abstract
The growth of IoT devices during the last decade has led to the development of smart ecosystems, such as smart homes, prone to cyberattacks. Traditional security methodologies support to some extend the requirement for preserving privacy and security of such deployments, but their centralized nature in conjunction with low computational capabilities of smart home gateways make such approaches not efficient. Last achievements on blockchain technologies allowed the use of such decentralized architectures to support cybersecurity defence mechanisms. In this work, a blockchain framework is presented to support the cybersecurity mechanisms of smart homes installations, focusing on the immutability of users and devices that constitute such environments. The proposed methodology provides also the appropriate smart contracts support for ensuring the integrity of the smart home gateway and IoT devices, as well as the dynamic and immutable management of blocked malicious IPs. The framework has been deployed on a real smart home environment demonstrating its applicability and efficiency.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Blockchain 2020 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Publisher | IEEE Signal Processing Society |
Publication date | Nov 2020 |
Pages | 490-495 |
Article number | 9284690 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780738104959 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2020 |
Event | 3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Blockchain 2020 - Virtual, Rhodes Island, Greece Duration: 2 Nov 2020 → 6 Nov 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Blockchain 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Virtual, Rhodes Island |
Period | 02/11/2020 → 06/11/2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through GHOST project (https://www.ghost-iot.eu/) under Grant Agreement No. 740923.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
Keywords
- Blockchain
- Cybersecurity
- IoT
- smart home