Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Security and Privacy Considerations for Legacy and Future IoT Systems

Prof. Klara Nahrstedt

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.

ABSTRACT

For several years now, IoT (Internet of Things) sensors and their corresponding cyber-infrastructure systems have been in place in various application domains including scientific instrumentation, power grid, health-care and others, becoming legacy IoT systems to care for by many IoT cyber-infrastructure providers. Furthermore, with the development of new sensing IoT devices, new IoT services and systems are emerging, waiting to be deployed. In this talk, we examine security challenges that are coming up with the legacy IoT systems, and discuss possible solutions via edge computing to enable older IoT devices serve longer in various IoT application domains. We present a concrete example, the BRACELET edge-cloud solution, to illustrate the protection of aging IoT devices in scientific instrumentation domain. We also elaborate on security and privacy threats in future IoT systems, give examples, and discuss the "good and bad" with new sensors/IoT devices in health-care domain.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Klara Nahrstedt is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor in the Computer Science Department, and Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are directed toward tele-immersive systems, end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and resource management in large scale distributed systems and networks, and real-time security and privacy in cyber-physical systems such as power grid. She is the co-author of multimedia books Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications published by Prentice Hall, and Multimedia Systems published by Springer Verlag. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, University Scholar, Humboldt Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, and the former chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia. She was the general co-chair and TPC co-chair of many international conferences including ACM Multimedia, IEEE Percom, IEEE IOTDI and others. Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in Mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in numerical analysis in 1985. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society).