TY - JOUR
T1 - The DNS in IoT
T2 - Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges
AU - Hesselman, Cristian
AU - Kaeo, Merike
AU - Chapin, Lyman
AU - Claffy, Kimberly
AU - Seiden, Mark
AU - McPherson, Danny
AU - Piscitello, Dave
AU - McConachie, Andrew
AU - April, Tim
AU - Latour, Jacques
AU - Rasmussen, Rod
N1 - Funding Information:
SIDN and the University of Twente were supported in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under Grant Agreement 830927. Project website: https:// www.concordia-h2020.eu/.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - The Internet of Things (IoT) is widely expected to make our society safer, smarter, and more sustainable. However, a key challenge remains, which is how to protect users and Internet infrastructure operators from attacks on or launched through vast numbers of autonomously operating sensors and actuators. In this article, we discuss how the security extensions of the domain name system (DNS) offer an opportunity to help tackle that challenge, while also outlining the risks that the IoT poses to the DNS in terms of complex and quickly growing IoT-powered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. We identify three challenges for the DNS and IoT industries to seize these opportunities and address the risks, for example, by making DNS security functions (e.g., response verification and encryption) available on popular IoT operating systems.
AB - The Internet of Things (IoT) is widely expected to make our society safer, smarter, and more sustainable. However, a key challenge remains, which is how to protect users and Internet infrastructure operators from attacks on or launched through vast numbers of autonomously operating sensors and actuators. In this article, we discuss how the security extensions of the domain name system (DNS) offer an opportunity to help tackle that challenge, while also outlining the risks that the IoT poses to the DNS in terms of complex and quickly growing IoT-powered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. We identify three challenges for the DNS and IoT industries to seize these opportunities and address the risks, for example, by making DNS security functions (e.g., response verification and encryption) available on popular IoT operating systems.
KW - DNS security
KW - IoT security
KW - n/a OA procedure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087507424&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MIC.2020.3005388
DO - 10.1109/MIC.2020.3005388
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087507424
VL - 24
SP - 23
EP - 32
JO - IEEE internet computing
JF - IEEE internet computing
SN - 1089-7801
IS - 4
M1 - 9133283
ER -