Internet of Things: Smart Homes

Internet of Things: Smart Homes
Presented by: Felice Flake, M.Sci., B.A., Sec+CE Peerlyst Ambassador Tampa, Florida

Smart Homes and Smart Communities Smart Home Builders Smart Home Suppliers and customizing modern home amenities “Hot New Tech for the Home As the economy revs back to life, factories are humming with all kinds of new products to make sure that when consumers are ready to start spending, there’s cool stuff to buy. “Manufacturers clearly aren’t sitting on their hands,” said Boyce Thompson, the editorial director at Builder Magazine. He said virtually every company had something new to show at the recent builders’ show. “A lot of it was pretty exciting.” The gazillion-head shower and other energy guzzlers are on their way out, Thompson says. The new technology is focused on energy efficiency and mobile control of the home.” Source:

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Internet of Things: Smart Home
Trending Items aka Toys Laser Vacuum Heated Driveway Thermal Leak Detector Wireless Speakers in Can Lights Laser Robot Vacuum A robot that cleans your house is every homeowners’ dream but Neato Robotics takes it to the next level, adding a LASER to their little robot vacuum. The robot vacuums of the past just wandered around your house sucking up everything in their path until they bumped into something. The laser allows the Neato robot vacuum to make a map of your house, from the couch to the front door, so it knows what it’s already cleaned and what still needs to be done. And when it’s done? It already has “home” on it’s little GPS and returns to its home base. Neat-o! Heated Driveway By now you’ve probably heard of radiant heat flooring, which is basically a heated mat under your hardwood or tile that keeps your floor — and your toes — warm. Well now, Warmly Yours is taken that toasty-toed concept outdoors, introducing radiant heat for the driveway, sidewalk — and even the gutters. It’s like a driveway that shovels itself! They even offer a handy “Snow Melt Quick Estimate "tool that allows you to quickly calculate how much it would cost to install it in your driveway. Thermal Imaging Gun Professionals have been able to see through your walls for years to detect energy leaks or water leaks, but now, the thermal-imaging guns they use are starting to become more mass marketed so any of us can buy them. “These things are unbelievable!” Thompson said. “YOU can take a picture of a wall or roof and basically see beneath the surface.” One such product, that’s reasonably priced at around $50, is the Black and Decker thermal leak detector(pictured left), which allows you to check for any energy leaks. It’s basically an infrared thermometer, which detects surface temperatures and an LED light changes color when it comes on hot or cold spots. The full-on thermal guns are also becoming more affordable, like the Flir i5,said Nigel Maynard, a senior editor at Builder Magazine.The gun, which is down to $1,500 from $5,000, allows users to not only detect energy leaks but water problems, electrical faults and other problems behind the wall. These products are not only cool, they save you money on hefty contractor fees and your energy bill. Not to mention, it saves you from putting needless holes in the wall to see what’s going on back there! Wireless Speakers in Can Lights Can lights, small circular lights inset in the ceiling, add elegance to any room and let’s face it, ceiling speakers are awesome, but now, you can get them all rolled into one. The Klipsch LightSpeaker system, which won the innovation award at last year’s CES show, is particularly cool because the speakers are wireless and they install like a light bulb — just screw them in. You can get two light-speakers and a master control system for just under $500 on Amazon.com. Each system can handle up to eight light-speakers and each additional light-speaker is about $250. You can program each system for two different zones, so you can listen to different music in different rooms. Let there be light — and sound! Zoned Entertainment (Music and TV) Speakers like that are a beacon of a broader trend — entertainment that travels with you around the home, a luxury that used to only be for bazillionaires like Bill Gates but is now becoming more accessible to the masses. By now you’ve probably seen the DirecTV commercial,that shows an awesome robot fight that starts in one room of the home, pauses as the guy walks to the next room and then resumes. Basically, you start watching a show in one room and then continue watching it in another. On the music side, home-music systems like Sonosallow you to wirelessly connect the speakers all over the house and divide them into zones so you can play the same music throughout, say if you’re throwing a party, or divide it up with different music in different rooms — say, so you can listen to grown-up music and the kids can listen to kid music! It can stream music over the Internet through sources like Sirius, Rhapsody and Pandora and can be controlled using an iPad, iPhone or iTouch — from anywhere in the house. “I love it,” said Patrick Hylant, an insurance salesman and avid music lover in Ohio. It’s faster than previous systems he’s used — “As fast as you can work an iTouch or an iPad you can play music,” he says — and the music is all stored online, so it doesn’t clog up your iPhone. Plus, once you have the app, you can control a Sonos system anywhere, say at a second home or at a friend’s house.

The Appliance Army In 2014, security researchers from Proofpoint found more than 100,000 Smart TVs, Refrigerator, and other smart household appliances compromised by hackers to send out 750,000 malicious spam s. As the ’Internet of Things’ becoming smart and popular it became an easy weapon for cyber criminals to launch large scale of cyber attacks. “The attack that Proofpoint observed and profiled occurred between December 23, 2013 and January 6, 2014, and featured waves of malicious , typically sent in bursts of 100,000, three times per day, targeting Enterprises and individuals worldwide." Previously, such attacks were only drafted theoretically by researchers, but this is the first such proven attack involved smart household appliances that are used as 'thingBots'- Thing Robots.

Security Vulnerabilities 24 hour availability on the Internet with an add-on of poorly protected Internet environment i.e. Poor misconfiguration and the use of default passwords. More than 25 percent of the volume was sent by things that were not conventional laptops, desktop computers or mobile devices; instead, the s were sent by everyday consumer gadgets such as compromised home-networking routers, connected multi-media centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator. No more than 10 s were initiated from any single IP address, making the attack difficult to block based on location -- and in many cases, the devices had not been subject to a sophisticated compromise; instead, misconfiguration and the use of default passwords left the devices completely exposed on public networks, available for takeover and use.”

NIST Internet of Things Colloquium NIST working with government, private, and academic sectors IoT generating huge amounts of data Interconnectivity is not there yet but we need to balance segmentation with technical advances

NIST Internet of Things Colloquium Andrew Sullivan “Internet of Infrastructure Threats” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks IoT = New Botnet Environment Shifting focus of device manufacturers to consider security Attack Surface Example of attack vector: Building monitor in the walls…how do you update the firmware?

Bot, Botnet, Bot Herder Bot: An autonomous program on a network (especially the Internet) that can interact with computer systems or users. Botnet: A network of private computers infected with (usually) malicious software and controlled as a group (usually) without the owner’s knowledge. Bot Herder: An individual who controls and maintains a botnet by installing botnet software in numerous machines, putting these machines into his or her control. Example of attack vector: Building monitor in the walls…how do you update the firmware? Bot: An autonomous program on a network (especially the Internet) that can interact with computer systems or users. Botnet: A network of private computers infected with (usually) malicious software and controlled as a group (usually) without the owner’s knowledge. Bot Herder: An individual who controls and maintains a botnet by installing botnet software in numerous machines, putting these machines into his or her control.

The Case for Use Case Money! Bots can be rented for small amount of money Chaos and espionage is part of the equation. No price sensitivity because it’s not their money Example of attack vector: Building monitor in the walls…how do you update the firmware? Bot: An autonomous program on a network (especially the Internet) that can interact with computer systems or users. Botnet: A network of private computers infected with (usually) malicious software and controlled as a group (usually) without the owner’s knowledge. Bot Herder: An individual who controls and maintains a botnet by installing botnet software in numerous machines, putting these machines into his or her control.

Incentives for improving Security Current incentives are entirely backwards Rushing products to ship is harmful Products must be built with security in mind

Possible Solutions (1 of 2) End to End Security Make applications capable of controlling and securing devices Evolution of the home network: Increase in number of devices Create a positive feedback loop for manufacturers to improve security of their products.

Possible Solutions (2 of 2) Senate Bill 1691 introduced this year is step in the right direction. S. 1691: Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 A bill to provide minimal cybersecurity operational standards for Internet-connected devices purchased by Federal agencies, and for other purposes

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Felice Flake, Candidate, MBA, M.Sci., Cybersecurity, Sec+CE

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