IACR News item: 22 July 2019
Ambili K N, Jimmy Jose
ePrint Report
IoT systems are vulnerable to various cyber attacks as they form a subset of the In-
ternet. Insider attacks find more significance since many devices are configured to access the
Internet without intrusion detection systems or firewalls in place. The current work focuses on
three insider attacks, namely, blackhole attack, sinkhole attack and wormhole attack. A distrib -
uted trust based intrusion detection system is proposed to detect these attacks. The trust scores
are compared with those existing in immutable distributed ledger and used to arrive at a deci-
sion to include or exclude a node.
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