IoT Security detailed syllabus for Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the EIE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit EIE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to EIE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of iot security is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to IoT Security – Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Countermeasures. Information Assurance. Attack types. New security threats and vulnerabilities. Fault Trees and CPS. Threat Modeling. Attack, Defense, and Network Robustness of Internet of Things, A Solution-Based Analysis of Attack Vectors on Smart Home Systems.
Unit II
SECURITY MANAGEMENT & CRYPTOLOGY
Building security in to design and development, Safety and security design, Security Management and Cryptology- Security Controls – Authentication, Confidentiality, Integrity; Access Control, Key Management, Communication and messaging Protocols, Cipher -Symmetric Key Algorithms, Public Private Key Cryptography; Attacks – Dictionary and Brute Force, Lookup Tables, Reverse Look Tables, Rainbow Tables, Hashing – MDS,SHA 256 SHA 512, Ripe MD, WI, Data Mining,.
Unit III
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Unit IV
IoT PROTOCOLS
IoT Protocol Built-in Security Features – Transport Layer, COAP, UDP, TCP, MQTT, SSL/TLS, DTLS, LIGHT WEIGHT M2M, XMPP, Zigbee, LoRa, BLE, Kerberos, Cloud security for IoT.
Unit V
IoT APPLICATIONS
Case Studies and Discussion: Smart Agriculture, Cities, Grid, Healthcare, Smart Homes, smart street lighting, Smart building, Smart parking, smart irrigation, Supply Chain, and Transportation, Application of Security Concepts to Create IoT system.
Skill Development Activities
(Group Seminar/Mini Project/Assignment/ 5
Content Preparation / Quiz/ Surprise Test / Solving GATE questions/ etc)
1 Needed to grasp business intelligence include sensor data analysis, data center . management, predictive analytics, and programming in Hadoop and NoSQL.
- Knowledge in UX and UI Design
- Develop well-versed in both iOS and Android app development
- Ability to program interfaces such as GPIO and I2C
- Should have basic OSI stack knowledge, especially connectivity protocols
- Ability to connect automatic API testing with manual testing
- Ability to read and interpret data meaningfully in healthcare.
- Familiar with machine learning and AI.
- cognizant of changes in programming languages and evolving hardware platforms.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Brian Russell, Drew Van Duren, �Practical Internet of Things Security�, Packt Publishing Limited, 2nd Edition,2018.
- Fei Hu, �Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoTs): Models, Algorithms, and Implementations,� CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2016, ISBN:978-1-4987-23190.
- Sunil Cheruvu, Anil Kumar, Ned Smith, David M. Wheeler, �Demystifying Internet of Things Security�, 2020.
Reference Books:
- Shancang Li and Li Da Xu, �Securing the Internet of Things�, Elsevier, 2017.
- Sridipta Misra, Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Salman Hashmi, �Security Challenges and Approaches in Internet of Things,� Springer, 2016.
- Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay Madisetti, �Internet of Things – A Hands-on approach,� VPT Publishers, 2014, ISBN:78-0996025515.
- IoT PROTOCOLS – https://www.avsystem.com/blog/iot-protocols-and-standards/
- IoT APPLICATIONS – https://www.jigsawacademy.com/top-uses-of-iot/
List of Open Source Software/ Learning Website:
- https://www.cybrary.it/course/iot-security/
- https://www.udemy.com/course/hacking-iot/
- https://www.edx.org/course/cybersecurity-and-privacy-in-the-iot
- https://www.netacad.com/courses/cybersecurity/iot-security
- https://stalwartlearning.com/iot-security/#1571760778613-fb76c66d-5ce2f2dc-0b723b65-c1c6
- loT Security Software: Quantum Armor, Azure loT Hub, AWS loT, SonicWall Capture Client, nuPSYS, Forescout, Sectrio, Microsoft defender for IoT, Cruz IoT Device Director, OverWatch, Google cloud IoT core, Darktrace, EJBCA, DxOdyssey, Cisco cyber vision, Tempered etc…
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