Knowledge-based cyber physical security at smart home: a review

Alsufyani, Azhar, Rana, Omer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-2646 and Perera, Charith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0190-3346 2023. Knowledge-based cyber physical security at smart home: a review. [Technical Report]. Cardiff Univesity.

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Abstract

Smart home systems represent the future of modern building infrastructure, integrating numerous devices and applications to elevate the overall quality of life. These systems establish connectivity among smart devices, leveraging network technologies and algorithmic control to monitor and manage the physical environment. However, ensuring robust security in smart homes, alongside securing the smart devices themselves, presents a formidable challenge. A substantial part of security solutions for smart homes rely on data-driven approaches (e.g., machine/deep learning) to identify and mitigate potential threats. These approaches involve training models on extensive datasets, distinguishing them from knowledge-driven methods. In this survey, we delve into the role of knowledge within smart homes, focusing on understanding and reasoning about various events and their utility towards securing smart homes. We propose a taxonomy to characterise the categorisation of decision-making approaches. By specifying the most common vulnerabilities, attacks, and threats, we are able to analyse and assess the countermeasures against them. We have also examined how smart homes have been evaluated in the reviewed papers. Furthermore, we explore the challenges inherent to smart homes and investigate existing solutions that aim to overcome these limitations. Finally, we take a look at key smart home security research gaps while defining future research directions of knowledge-driven schemes.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Status:	Submitted
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Internet of Things, Reasoning, Cyber-Physical Security, Smart Home
Publisher:	Cardiff Univesity
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2023 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163569

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