As the consumer grade IoT devices industry advances, personal privacy is constantly eroded for the sake of convenience. Current security solutions, although available, ignore convenience by requiring the purchase of additional hardware, implementing confusing, out of scope updates for a non-technical user, or quarantining a device, rendering it useless. This paper proposes a solution that simultaneously maintains convenience and privacy, tailored for the Internet of Things. We propose a novel graceful degradation technique which targets individual device functionalities for acceptance or denial at the network level. When combined with current anomaly detection and fingerprinting methods, graceful degradation provides a personalized IoT security solution for the modern user.

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Creator

• Wirkala, Roger Davis
• Grimm, Jared S.
• Bordeleau, Dillon Thomas

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121219-162703

Advisor

• Shue, Craig A.
• DeCarli, Lorenzo

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-12-12

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright