Research Paper

 Current State of IoT Security 

 Which browser is more secure? 

 Lessons learned from the Mirai Botnet attack of 2016 

Requirements:

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Paper

· No less than 10 pages of ‘meat’

· 10 References, 6 peer reviewed

· Only one topic needs to be selected

· Presentation

· No slide limits

· Must cover 7 minutes min to 12 minutes max

Current State of IoT Security

· Introduce how IoT has penetrated the market

· Research 2 – 3 IoT security breaches

· Present the history of the attacks and affected devices

· Talk about how they could have been prevented

· Discuss any reputation loss or business loss by the company(s) of these hacks

· Present the security outlook for these company(s) or for IoT as a whole

Which browser is more secure?

· Compare 3 modern browsers with available research data.  

· Present studies that have compared the browsers or aspects of the browsers in a literature review.

· Make your recommendation after comparing (a minimal of 5 previous pieces of research).

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Lessons learned from the Mirai Botnet attack of 2016

· Lessons learned from the Mirai Botnet attack of 2016

· Research the history of the attack and those responsible.

· What did this exploit?

· Why was it so much more effective than previous BotNet designs?

· What kind of mitigations would you recommend for protection?