Issues and Concerns in Security of Cloud Environment in Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is a permeative affair that is gaining heights with every passing day thus changing the way society has been living till now. Living in an era where every “thing” will be connected to the Internet is no more a dream. Now we can see people using IoT on daily basis like in the field of education, agriculture, transportation, healthcare, science and many more. Ranging from smart watches to automated machines in industries people have started using IoT for both personal and commercial purposes. With the talk of linking devices to the Internet comes the concept of Cloud. Before IoT was revolutionized, the main purpose of Cloud was to act upon relentless task involving factors like scalability, elasticity, adaptability and multitenancy. But as Internet of Things started gaining heights, there was a need to fulfill the demand of responding and managing issues and outcomes on the go, thus enhancing the features of Cloud making it omnipresent, nimble and flexible on demand. Now remotely tasks such as configuring, reviewing, updating, accessing the condition, extracting data etc. on IoT devices can be easily performed. But this added ease from the IoT Cloud exposed the IoT devices to various risks. In this paper we will be discussing different security issues that arise in IoT devices if the IoT Cloud gets compromised.