Running Head: Cybersecurity and the internet of things
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Cybersecurity and the internet of things
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The article being reviewed in this research is titled cybersecurity and the internet of
things. The authors of the article are Mohamed Abomhara and Geir M. Koen. In the article,
the authors are investing the types of threats and attacks that affect the infrastructure of the
internet of things. The authors have classified the types of threats as well as analyzing and
characterizing the intruders and the attacks that face the devices and the services of the
internet of things. Before addressing the security issues affecting the internet of things, the
authors of this article first had to identify the components of the systems that form the
internet of things. The authors concentrated first on the concept of the asset inventory, which
included all the components of the internet of things, the devices, and the services. The
authors first defined an asset as an economic resource, meaning this is something of value.
The authors identified the factors that affect the internet of things research of the literature
detailing the components that affect the internet of things. This researcher did not go out to
the field for collection of data on how the internet of things has been affected; however, they
only relied on reviewing the already done research.
The authors in this article carried out their research basing on the following
assumptions; first, the authors assumed that majority of the devices of the internet of things
are not attended to in a better way when they are being used by human beings. This makes it
easy for the internet of things to be attacked as the attackers would physically gain access to
the systems. Secondly, the authors assumed that all the components of the internet of things
carry out their communication through a wireless network which gives attackers an
opportunity to gain access to confidential information of an organization or an individual
through eavesdropping. The third assumption that the authors made was that the components
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Cybersecurity and the internet of things
Instructor Name
Course
Date
, Cybersecurity and the internet of things
2
The article being reviewed in this research is titled cybersecurity and the internet of
things. The authors of the article are Mohamed Abomhara and Geir M. Koen. In the article,
the authors are investing the types of threats and attacks that affect the infrastructure of the
internet of things. The authors have classified the types of threats as well as analyzing and
characterizing the intruders and the attacks that face the devices and the services of the
internet of things. Before addressing the security issues affecting the internet of things, the
authors of this article first had to identify the components of the systems that form the
internet of things. The authors concentrated first on the concept of the asset inventory, which
included all the components of the internet of things, the devices, and the services. The
authors first defined an asset as an economic resource, meaning this is something of value.
The authors identified the factors that affect the internet of things research of the literature
detailing the components that affect the internet of things. This researcher did not go out to
the field for collection of data on how the internet of things has been affected; however, they
only relied on reviewing the already done research.
The authors in this article carried out their research basing on the following
assumptions; first, the authors assumed that majority of the devices of the internet of things
are not attended to in a better way when they are being used by human beings. This makes it
easy for the internet of things to be attacked as the attackers would physically gain access to
the systems. Secondly, the authors assumed that all the components of the internet of things
carry out their communication through a wireless network which gives attackers an
opportunity to gain access to confidential information of an organization or an individual
through eavesdropping. The third assumption that the authors made was that the components
