On Thursday, 03 October 2019, I was cordially invited as an external guest lecturer to deliver a 2-hour lecture to undergraduate students at Lund University. Lund University is a prestigious university in Sweden and one of northern Europe’s oldest universities.

In my presentation, I covered some of the notable IoT security threats, attacks, and countermeasures. I emphasized the difficulties of implementing traditional security measures and strategies, such as standard asymmetric encryption algorithms, end-to-end security, and scheduled patching. This is especially due to the heterogeneous nature of devices, various resource and energy constraints, and the dynamic nature of the environment. The characteristics of an IoT environment further bring in a different set of security threats, including those that can cause permanent physical damage to a system. In the second and final part of my lecture, I talked about the persons behind the attacks, their skills, their motives, and how challenging it is to defend against certain classes of malicious threat agents.

You can download my presentation from the adjacent link: IoT Security at Lund University.