Dynamic Control of IoT Traffic in Complex Environments

• Grant number: 24/10856-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: February 28, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: José Augusto Suruagy Monteiro
• Grantee: Rafael Roque de Souza
• Host Institution: Centro de Informática (CIn). Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Recife , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/23098-0 - MENTORED: from modeling to experimentation - predicting and detecting DDoS and zero-day attacks, AP.TEM

Abstract

One of the main challenges in securing an IoT environment concerns traffic monitoring because an IoT hub typically cannot provide coverage for all devices or control all of their communications. Moreover, sophisticated distributed cyber-attacks may have multiple steps launched from various applications and devices, making them very challenging to detect through individual analysis of local data on specific devices. Therefore, the postdoctoral researcher will work towards proposing a collaborative and distributed intrusion detection system that is capable of detecting such distributed attacks while dynamically reconfiguring enforcement rules to prevent attacks with a low false positive rate.