Use of honeypots for mitigating DoS attacks targeted on IoT networks

Abstract

Every day, a new technology comes up and the primary reason why it fails to attract many people in this era is the concern of privacy and security. Each day, along with the new technology comes a load of vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited. IoT (Internet of Things) is the latest trend and like all technology, it is open for exploitation. The most common attack which is used to bring down a whole network, without even finding a loophole in the security — DoS can be used to pull down any IoT network as well. In this paper, we propose a honeypot model for mitigating DoS attacks launched on IoT devices. Honeypots are commonly used in online servers as a decoy to the main server so that the attack is mitigated to the decoy instead of the main server. Here a similar methodology is used to avoid the whole IoT system from being shut down due to a DoS attack.