Danny Y. Huang
September 20, 2023 at 11:00 AM on Zoom / Soda Hall
Global IoT Testbed for Security and Privacy Research
Abstract:
IoT devices are known to have security and privacy risks, but studying these risks in a real-world context has been challenging. In this talk, I’ll talk about our latest effort to develop a testbed of real-world IoT devices around the globe. Building upon our existing IoT Inspector platform, this testbed will consist of actual IoT devices on actual networks with actual human participants world-wide. I’ll describe a number of ongoing studies that involve this testbed, such as network measurement, supply chain security, and machine learning. I’ll also talk about our plan to build a research community for this testbed. Our vision is that any researchers, in security, privacy, ML, and beyond, will be able to conduct in-situ real-world experiments that also protect the privacy of the participants.
Related link: https://iotinspector.org/ — an open-source tool for non-experts to visualize potential security/privacy risks on their IoT networks; 7K+ users, 65K+ devices; largest known crowdsourced dataset of IoT traffic; featured on Washington Post, NY Times, NPR, etc.
Bio: Danny Y. Huang is an Assistant Professor at New York University’s Center for Cyber Security. He is interested in the security and privacy of real-world IoT devices from both the technical and human perspectives. He used to work at Soda 723 and ICSI when he was a grad student at UC San Diego. Website: https://hdanny.org/