Centre for Internet of Things

and Pervasive Systems

Dr Geoff Merrett, Head of Centre

An Afternoon on IoT Security, 03 July 2018

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C-IOT OBJECTIVES

• Community

– ECS has broad and diverse interests in IoT, but often isolated;

– C-IoT to bring researchers together to enhance internal community and

provide a focus for IoT activities.

• Collaboration

– Foster new interdisciplinary research collaborations within ECS and beyond.

• Impact

– Increase external exposure of research activities and successes.

• Education

– Investigating specialist educational programmes.

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PEOPLE

C-IoT Management Group

• Agents, Interaction and Complexity, Dr Sebastian Stein

• Cyber Physical Systems, Dr Thai Son Hoang, Dr Gary Wills, Dr Geoff Merrett

• Cyber Security, Dr Leonardo Aniello

• Electrical Power Engineering, Dr Thomas Andritsch

• Next Generation Wireless, Dr Mohammed El-Hajjar

• Outreach, Dr Reena Pau

• Smart Electronic Materials and Systems, Dr Alex Weddell, Dr Jize Yan

• Sustainable Electronic Technologies, Prof Mark Zwolinski

• Vision, Learning and Control, Dr Bing Chu

• Web and Internet Science, Dr Thanassis Tiropanis, Prof Kirk Martinez

+ Over 100 staff, students and external contacts have already registered an interest

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DEVICES

Devices for:

– Sensing

– Logic/computation

– Memory

– Communication

• Macro/micro/nano scale

• Printed and wearable electronics

Left: The Southampton

Nanofabrication Centre

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POWER AND ENERGY

• Self-powered systems

– A battery in every one of the billion

IoT devices?

– Energy/power harvesting

– Battery-free and energy-driven

systems

• Energy-efficient IoT

– ULP operation

– Efficient networking

– Energy-management

– End-devices > edge > data centre

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COMMUNICATIONS

AND NETWORKING

• 5G comms and Massive Machine

Type Communication (mMTC)

• Interests include:

– Coding and modulation

– Cognitive radio

– MAC protocols

– Routing strategies

– CoAP

– Negotiation strategies

– …

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DATA ANALYSIS AND

INTELLIGENCE

• Data management, integration and

infrastructure

• Data analysis, policy reasoning and

information fusion

• Machine learning & artificial

intelligence (links to CMI*)

* ECS Centre for Machine Intelligence

Right: The IoT Observatory

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APPLICATION DOMAINS

• Applied IoT research, targeting a

wide range of application domains:

– Smart Cities

– Smart Energy

– Smart Homes

– Agricultural Monitoring

– Earth Science

– Health and Well-Being (CHT*)

– …

* ECS Centre for Health Technologies

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OUR EVENTS

Interdisciplinary Reading Groups

• e.g. Self-Powered Computation,

Smart Energy, IoT Security

Internal Community Events

• Increase internal awareness and

collaboration

Technical Seminars

• Regular 30-minute presentations

from researchers

Focused Afternoon Workshops

• Longer events on specific IoT areas

(e.g. this event)

C-IoT Poster Session

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FIND OUT MORE

• Keep an eye on our website

www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk

• Register an interest to find out about:

– Future events

– Opportunities for collaboration

(targeted)

www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/find-out-more

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AN AFTERNOON ON IOT SECURITY

This event is sponsored by the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of

Excellence for Cyber Security Research and the Cyber Security Academy

14:00 Welcome and IntroductionDr Geoff Merrett, Dr Sebastian Stein

ECS, University of Southampton

Session 1: Security Fundamentals

14:10 Hardware Intrusion Early DetectionElena Woo Lai Long

ECS, University of Southampton

14:20An Introduction to The Internet of Things

Security Foundation

Dr Jeremy Bennett

Embecosm, representing IoTSF

14:30Why Truly Secure IoT is so Hard: A Review of

Real World Deployment Issues

Dr Nicholas Allott

Nquiring Minds

14:40 How Secure is Secure Enough?Alex Collins

Roke

14:50Towards IoT Cyber Security; the Southampton

Approach

Professor Vladimiro Sassone

ECS, University of Southampton

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AN AFTERNOON ON IOT SECURITY

This event is sponsored by the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of

Excellence for Cyber Security Research and the Cyber Security Academy

Session 2: Applications

15:30 Formal Modelling for IoT SecurityProf Michael Butler, Dr Thai Son Hoang

ECS, University of Southampton

15:40Machine Learning for Secure Smart Traffic

Systems

Dr Long Tran-Thanh

ECS, University of Southampton

15:50 Risk Management for Connected Devices

Dr Mario Brito

Centre for Risk Research, University of

Southampton

16:00 Validating the I and the O in IoTLeigh Chase

IBM

16:10IoT and the Opportunities/Threats it Poses to

UK Law Enforcement

June Woodland

DCG Futures Group

16:20 The Internet of Military ThingsAndrew Poulter

DSTL

YOUR QUESTIONS

Dr Geoff Merrett, Head of Centre

e: c-iot-hog@ecs.soton.ac.uk

w: www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk