The grand vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to establish a whole new ecosystem comprised of heterogeneous connected devices that communicate to deliver environments making our living, cities, transport, energy, and many other areas more intelligent. Earlier forecasts on the number of connected devices estimated their number around 50 billion by 2020.
Such technological evolution is also making our society vulnerable to new forms of threats and attacks exploiting the complexity and heterogeneity of IoT networks, therefore rendering cyber-security amongst the most important aspects of a networked world.
The proposed research aims to explore IoT vulnerabilities and propose and innovative gateway that will utilise Deep Learning, fuzzy and deep packet inspection in order to detecting and mitigate Botnets that use IoT devices for DDoS and RoQ attacks.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon, 25th June 2018.
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PhD Research Studentship at University of Plymouth