A required security and privacy framework for smart objects

The large scale deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) increases the urgency to adequately address trust, security and privacy issues. We need to see the IoT as a collection of smart and interoperable objects that are part of our personal environment. These objects may be shared among or borrowed from users. In general, they will have only temporal associations with their users and their personal identities. These temporary associations need to be considered while at the same time taking into account security and privacy aspects. In this work, we discuss a selection of current activities being carried out by different standardization bodies for the development of suitable technologies to be deployed in IoT environments. Based on such technologies, we propose an integrated design to manage security and privacy concerns through the lifecycle of smart objects. The presented approach is framed within our ARM-compliant security framework, which is intended to promote the design and development of secure and privacy-aware IoT-enabled services.