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Accountability & Risk Impact Assessment by Design – Any data controller and processor to be accountable for
regulatory, contractual and ethical compliance. If data is compromised, disclosed, accessed or lost, clear
statement by vendors, data controllers and data processors on impact is another prerequisite.
5
Awareness & Information Supplied with Indication of Purpose – Technically regulating access to data to define
who can use it for what purpose, and how that can be made transparent, and subsequently measured and
monitored. Design in a transparent way, so the data subject is and remains clear and aware of privacy issues,
choices it makes and possible consequences thereof.
5.1.2 Key Findings
– There is no single set of IoT security and privacy
principles that is internationally recognised and adopted.
– The diversity in proposed IoT security principles between
different countries and initiatives illustrates a lack of
collaboration, especially between governments.
– Due to the lack of globally-adopted principles, a language
towards common understanding of shared IoT challenges
and issues is lacking. Such a language is required to
define a global governance process.
– Consumers and companies are not uniformly aware of the
cybersecurity risks and may not be equipped to respond
properly.
5.2
IOT SECURITY STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
While numerous standards exist in the IoT space, IoT
security has not been standardised significantly until now; a
recent ETSI standard is one of the first efforts to
standardise IoT security.108 While numerous sets of IoT
security recommendations exist, it is important to
harmonise and align these for global acceptance and
adoption as a precursor to developing evaluation and
certification schemes.
108 https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/
press-releases/1549-2019-02-etsi-releases-first-globally-applicablestandard-for-consumer-iot-security
109 https://www.itu.int
110 https://www.nist.gov/
5.2.1 Current Landscape and Recent Developments
Standards development organisations (SDOs) such as ITU109,
NIST110, ETSI111, IETF112, and ISO113 have all undertaken
IoT-specific efforts. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for IoT Standards
and Protocols114 profiles as many as 30 IoT standards,
15 of which have been marked to deliver “high business
benefit.” Six of those are expected to become mainstream
in the next five years, including the below networking
standards.
– 6LoWPAN: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area
Networks is an IETF standard to deliver IPv6 connectivity
over non-IP networking technologies such as NFC and
LoRa using extremely low power, such that compliant
devices can potentially run for years on battery power.
– OneM2M: a machine-to-machine service layer that can be
embedded in hardware and software to connect devices.
– Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA): a proprietary
standard for connecting IoT objects.
– Sigfox: a proprietary low-power, low-throughput
technology for IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M)
communications.
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112
113
114
http://www.etsi.org/
https://www.ietf.org/
https://www.iso.org
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3762285/hype-cycle-iot-standards-protocols
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