Gartner predicts that IoT will proliferate to 20.5 Billion Devices by 2020. However, with this broader connectivity, new vulnerabilities and attack vectors are being introduced, increasing opportunities for systems to be compromised by hackers and targeted attacks and pose severe threats to a myriad of IoT applications. While embedded OEMs offer security technologies that deploy strong chain-of-trust and authentication mechanisms, they struggle to protect against vulnerabilities introduced by vendors and end users, as well as additional threats posed by latent technical vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks.

I am currently looking at novel reactive embedded security architecture that shall not only detects anomalous system behaviours but also actively responds and takes active countermeasures to mitigate attacks at run-time.