Kinesis: A Security Incident Response and Prevention System for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Salmin Sultana, Daniele Midi, Elisa Bertino

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CERIAS TR 2013-12

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Due to resource constraints, unattended operating environment, and communication phenomena, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are susceptible to operational failures and security attacks. However, WSNs must be able to continuously provide their services despite anomalies or attacks and to effectively recover from attacks. In this paper, we propose Kinesis - the first systematic approach to a security incident response and prevention system for WSNs. We take a declarative approach to support the specification of the response policies, based on which Kinesis selects the response actions. The system is distributed in nature, dynamic in actions depending on the context, quick and effective in response, and secure. We implement Kinesis in TinyOS. Testbed experiments and extensive TOSSIM simulations show that the system successfully counteracts anomalies/attacks and behaves consistently under various attack scenarios and rates.

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2013 – 12 – 31

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2013-12-31

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	year = "2013",
	month = "12",
	day = "31",
	abstract = "Due to resource constraints, unattended operating environment, and communication phenomena, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are susceptible to operational failures and security attacks. However, WSNs must be able to continuously provide their services despite anomalies or attacks and to effectively recover from attacks. In this paper, we propose Kinesis - the first systematic approach to a security incident response and prevention system for WSNs. We take a declarative approach to support the specification of the response policies, based on which Kinesis selects the response actions. The system is distributed in nature, dynamic in actions depending on the context, quick and effective in response, and secure. We implement Kinesis in TinyOS. Testbed experiments and extensive TOSSIM simulations show that the system successfully counteracts anomalies/attacks and behaves consistently under various attack scenarios and rates.",
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