MITIGATING DDOS ATTACK IN IOT NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Nowadays, there are lots of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are used in Industry, Home appliances,
Automobile industry and many more places. Issues regarding security of the IoT are the primary reason why it
fails to attract more people. Each day, beside the new technology comes a millions of vulnerabilities waiting to
be exploited. IoT is that the latest trend and like all technology, it's open for exploitation. In IoT environment,
Distributed Denial of service attack (DDoS) could be a major issue, because of the limited computing and power
resources of standard IoT devices are prioritized in implementing functionality instead of security features.
DDoS attack is the most common attack which is used to bring down the whole network without having any
loophole in the network security. The main purpose of this work is to mitigate DDoS attacks against the IoT
using honeypot model in Raspberry Pi. Honeypots are the network setup with intentional loopholes. The
purpose of honeypot is to invite attackers, so the activities and methods used to attack can be studied and it can
also help to increase network security. Conclusion came out after reviewing some research papers that there are
lots of DDoS attack mitigation techniques are proposed by many researchers, but very few are proposed for IoT
environment. Primary focus of this dissertation work is to proposed mitigation techniques of DDoS attack on
IoT device using honeypot and IDS with low cost and high performance resources.