A risk-driven security analysis for a bluetooth low energy based microdata ecosystem

This paper presents security requirements, risk survey, security objectives, and security controls of the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based Catcher devices and the related Microdata Ecosystem of Ceruus company for a secure, energy efficient and scalable wireless content distribution. The system architecture was composed of the Mobile Cellular Network (MCN) based gateway/edge router device, such as Smart Phone, Catchers, and web based application servers. It was assumed that MCN based gateways communicate with application servers and surrounding Catcher devices. The analysis of the scenarios developed highlighted common aspects and led to security requirements, objectives, and controls that were used to define and develop the Catcher and MCN based router devices and guide the system architecture design of the Microdata Ecosystem.