An Ontological Security Framework to Secure the SDN based IoT Networks

Abstract

The IoT (Internet of Things) is now a trendy technology with its numerous apps in multiple areas. It includes a heterogeneous amount of Internet and mutually linked devices. Since the IoT network is characterized by tiny assets that produce less energy and are more flexible, this number of machines is difficult to monitor. SDN (Software Defined Network) is a new network model that facilitates the creation and introduction of fresh networking abstractions, simplifies the management of network and facilitates network development. In this paper, by leveraging the fundamental characteristics represented by Software Defined Networks (SDN), we present an ontological security architecture for IoT networks. Our security architecture restricts access to independently verified IoT devices via the network. To secure the flows in the IoT network infrastructure, we introduced an extra layer and provide a lightweight protocol to authenticate IoT systems. Such an advanced strategy to protection containing IoT device authentication and allowing approved flows can assist secure IoT networks against malicious IoT devices and threats.