A Survey on Security Concerns in Internet of Things

Internet of Things is the kinship using Internet of computing equipments ingrained in everyday gadgets which facilitate them to deliver and retrieve data. But the use of such gadgets was not encouraged to much greater extent due to many security concerns arising with them. Most of the malicious attacks happening on IoT devices are carried out by botnets. Now different devices require different security measures. If different types of security options are available, we need to decide which solutions are best for a particular IoT device or application. It is important to understand the requirements for the threat prevention of a particular device. Individual appliances or a whole enterprise need a system which can detect and respond to different threats, malware or hacking of the system. In this paper, we are producing a review on various security outbreaks that can take place on different layers that constitute IoT. Distinct mechanisms are examined that present clarifications to these security concerns along with their disadvantages. Also we have discussed about honeypots which are a much better security scheme that can prevent the attacks from occurring so that there is no need to detect them. Here we have also explained setting up a honeypot for resource constrained IoT devices using a simple illustration. Future work is also discussed such that strength and safety of IoT should enhance and their various devices get more protection against many familiar attacks.