A New Solution for Protecting the Future Internet of Things: Dynamic DMZ

We envision a new recommendation system for protecting the network of smart objects. A combination of the Social Network Analysis (SNA), Multi Agent Systems (MAS) and, Virtual Organizations (VO) shows the interdisciplinary nature of this idea. We offer a method based on dividing the network of interest onto two zones: The Protected Zone and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The protected part is surrounded with protecting agents and the agents are settled in the boundary nodes between protected and DMZ part. The distributed protecting software gets all needed information from our suggested recommendation system. The offered information includes: the topology of network, safe part of the network, important nodes or links (central components), the list of boundary nodes and, so on. The simulations show and evaluate the protecting scheme.

Keywords:

IoT , Network Security , Social Networks , Network Centrality , Multi Agent Systems , Virtual Organizations