Internet-of-things security and vulnerabilities: Iot security, iot taxonomy

Today, our world includes billions of sensors and computing devices that are continually sensing, collecting, consolidating, and analyzing significant amount of our personal information. Such information may include our location, contact list, browsing patterns, and health and fitness information. Many researches focus on IoT security and privacy, but the countermeasures presented in these research often aim at a particular type of attack. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the IoT architecture as a whole and provide holistic protections. Furthermore, the technologies and devices themselves are highly heteroge- neous. This makes their management a difficult and com- plex enterprise.