Analysis of Human Awareness of Security and Privacy Threats in Smart Environments
It addresses security and privacy issues for users and developers in smart environments, but is incremental as it reviews and explains existing risks without introducing new solutions.
This work reviews major security and privacy risks in smart environments, focusing on networking, and explains the role of stakeholders in causing security gaps while envisioning future threats based on human aspects.
Smart environments integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into devices, vehicles, buildings and cities to offer an increased quality of life, energy efficiency and economical sustainability. In this perspective, the individual has a core role and so has networking, which enables such entities to cooperate. However, the huge amount of sensitive data, social aspects and the mixed set of protocols offer many opportunities to inject hazards, exfiltrate information, mass profiling of citizens, or produce a new wave of attacks. This work reviews the major risks arising from the usage of ICT-techniques for smart environments, with emphasis on networking. Its main contribution is to explain the role of different stakeholders for causing a lack of security and to envision future threats by considering human aspects.