IKT520 Sikkerhet i IoT og Machine-Type Communication (Vår 2025)

IKT447-G Tillit, trusler, risiko og sårbarheter.

I tillegg er det en fordel med kjennskap til programmering i Python og kjennskap til Linux.

On successful completion of the course, the students should:

• know about selected Internet-of-Things (IoT) architectures
• have a solid theoretical understanding of IoT related security and privacy issues and be able to apply this knowledge in simple systems
• have an overall understanding on the social perspectives of IoT security
• have a deep theoretical and practical knowledge of data-centric IoT Protocols – MQTT, MQTT-SN, CoAP and AMQP
• have a basic understanding of Link layer IoT protocols – ZigBee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• have an understanding on conceptual difference between the security perspectives of data-centric IoT protocols and link layer IoT Protocols
• have a thorough understanding on security measures supported by the link layer IoT protocols -ZigBee, BLE and Wi-Fi
• have a solid understating on security perspectives of data-centric IoT protocols
• be able to design and implement a simple and secure IoT system using the MQTT protocol
• have knowledge of Machine-Type Communication (MTC) concepts (IMT 2020 and Beyond)
• have a basic understanding of security perspectives associated with MTC

The main topics in the course are:

• IoT concepts and architectures
• Critical ICT infrastructures aspects
• Security and privacy aspects for IoT
• Data-centric IoT protocols – MQTT, MQTT-SN, CoAP and AMQP
• Link-layer IoT protocols – ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE
• Security aspects of ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE
• Introducing TLS, DTLS security protocols and how they can be utilized efficiently to provide security for data-centric IoT protocols – MQTT, MQTT-SN, CoAP and AMQP
• Design, configuration and implementation of simple MQTT-based IoT systems using OpenSSL, Mosquitto server and Paho programming libraries

• Machine-Type Communication (MTC), based on 3GPP specifications

  • Massive MTC
  • Critical MTC (also known as ultra-reliable low-latency communication (urllc))
• Overview of MTC security