The rapid evolution of Industry 4.0 and the spread of IoT is leading to an exceptional uprising in the cyber-physical systems with rich societal applications. This high growth is also a driving factor for a wide range of security concerns especially in critical infrastructure, attacks on IoT devices, increasing data risk in IoT networks, amid growing IoT security regulations. The project is to provide IoT security ecosystem and setting up evaluation environment for IoT devices. A comprehensive IoT security ecosystem addresses the requirements at various devices, protocols and network technologies. It provides end-to-end security addressing the continuously evolving security threats. To develop the sandbox for IoT functionality & Security validation and establish the facility at Bengaluru.

1. Sandbox facility to evaluate Functionality and Security of IoT devices.

2. Security solutions for protection of IoT devices.

3. Design and development of solutions with network monitoring, security analysis and attack detection.

4. Software Defined Network (SDN) based IoT security solution.

Design and development of a comprehensive IoT security solution with edge intelligence having the following sub objectives:

1. Design and development of security solutions for protection of IoT devices with following components:

2. Secure Lightweight Embedded Operating System to protect from threats and vulnerabilities.

3. Self-aware IoT devices with a sense of uniqueness and identity with improved Hardware Root of Trust and Device Bootstrapping techniques.

4. Efficient Key Establishment Techniques for Sensor Networks using Lightweight Cryptography Standards.

5. An Identity Management platform that offers the modules on issuance of trusted identities for things and authentication of things.

6. Blockchain assisted IoT security.

Design and development of Software Defined Network (SDN) based IoT security solution with following components:

1. Software-Defined IoT Network ecosystem, including SDN enabled IoT Gateways and Edge/VNF (Virtual Network Function) platforms.

2. Solution for network data path segmentation.

3. Hardware based offloading facility for data path encryption and compression.

4. Network access control and network flow segmentation based on MUD (Manufacturer Usage Description) based behavior profiling.

5. Network behavioral monitoring and anomaly detection of IoT devices.

6. Development of security orchestration solution and Northbound API for programmability of security functions in the IoT ecosystem

7. Solution to enable zero trust for SDN based IoT framework for interoperable applications that includes components of a) Zero Trust SDN - IoT gateway and b) Zero Trust enabled SDN Controller for IoT infrastructure

Design and development of solution with network monitoring, security analysis and attack detection with following components:

1. Software platform for network traffic monitoring, analysis, attack detection system and risk management of IoT device & network.

2. Platform for Threat sharing.

Name of Chief Investigator : Mr. Hari Babu Pasupuleti 

E-mail Id : hari@cdac.in

Address : C-DAC , 68, Electronic City Phase I, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560100