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If you can't understand it, you can't properly assess it! The reality of assessing security risks in Internet of Things systems

Nurse, Jason R. C. and Radanliev, Petar and Creese, Sadie and De Roure, David (2018) If you can't understand it, you can't properly assess it! The reality of assessing security risks in Internet of Things systems. In: Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - 2018. IET. ISBN 978-1-78561-843-7. (doi:10.1049/cp.2018.0001) (KAR id:67466)

Abstract

Security risk assessment methods have served us well over the last two decades. As the complexity, pervasiveness and automation of technology systems increases, particularly with the Internet of Things (IoT), there is a convincing argument that we will need new approaches to assess risk and build system trust. In this article, we report on a series of scoping workshops and interviews with industry professionals (experts in enterprise systems, IoT and risk) conducted to investigate the validity of this argument. Additionally, our research aims to consult with these professionals to understand two crucial aspects. Firstly, we seek to identify the wider concerns in adopting IoT systems into a corporate environment, be it a smart manufacturing shop floor or a smart office. Secondly, we investigate the key challenges for approaches in industry that attempt to effectively and efficiently assess cyber-risk in the IoT.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1049/cp.2018.0001
Uncontrolled keywords: risk assessment, security, internet of things, coupled systems, industry workshops and studies, stakeholder and user engagement
Subjects: Q Science
T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Jason Nurse
Date Deposited: 03 Jul 2018 19:20 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/67466 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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