Unveiling IoT Devices Provisioning Process [poster]

Conference
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) - November 2-4, 2021
Authors
Rostand A. K. Fezeu (Ph.D. student), Timothy J. Salo (Ph.D. student), Amy Zhang (undergraduate student researcher), Zhi-Li Zhang (professor)
Abstract
In this paper, we conduct a first measurement study to examine the provisioning process used by smart home IoT devices. Through reverse-engineering techniques, we capture, decrypt and analyze the message exchanges among IoT devices, the vendor-specific mobile app and vendor cloud services, and investigate their security and privacy implications. Furthermore, we carry out a series of experiments and demonstrate the feasibility of developing an open, edge-centric framework for device isolation and device/network/cloud segregation, with an eye towards automatically setting up, managing and securing IoT devices.
Link to full paper
Unveiling IoT Devices Provisioning Process
Keywords
networking, Internet of Things