Securing Networks of IoT Devices With Digital Twins and Automated Adversary Emulation

With the number of Internet-connected devices (things), expected to be almost 30 billion by 2030, the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies already became a part of everyday life, various areas like public health, smart cars, smart grids, smart cities, smart manufacturing and smart homes. On the other hand there is also the necessity of securing all these devices from possible cyber-attacks. In this paper, We investigate the current state of the art of IoT security and Digital Twins, digital representations of physical objects. We then use this knowledge to propose a novel methodology to use Cyber Digital Twins and Autonomous Adversary Emulation to improve the security of IoT devices. Consequently, we show that this methodology has the potential to improve the security of IoT applications. This work contributes a review of the state of the art in IoT security research and a novel method for improving IoT device security.