IoT Security: Review and Future Directions for Protection Models

Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) has gained considerable significance and concern, consequently, and in particular with widespread usage and adoption of the IoT applications and projects in various industries, the consideration of the IoT Security has increased dramatically too. Therefore, this paper presents a concise and a precise review for the current state of the IoT security models and frameworks. The paper also proposes a new unified criteria and characteristics, namely Formal, Inclusive, Future, Agile, and Compliant with the standards (FIFAC), in order to assure modularity, reliability, and trust for future IoT security models, as well as, to provide an assortment of adaptable controls for protecting the data consistently across all IoT layers.