Detecting and Handling IoT Interaction Threats in Multi-Platform Multi-Control-Channel Smart Homes

Explore a conference talk from USENIX Security '23 that delves into detecting and handling IoT interaction threats in multi-platform, multi-control-channel smart homes. Learn about the challenges posed by the complex interactions between various entities in smart home environments, including IoT devices, automation applications, humans, voice assistants, and companion apps. Discover how these interactions can lead to undesirable and potentially hazardous results, known as IoT interaction threats. Understand the limitations of existing work on interaction threats and the need for a more comprehensive approach. Gain insights into IoTMediator, a novel system that provides accurate threat detection and threat-tailored handling in multi-platform, multi-control-channel homes. Examine the evaluation results from two real-world homes, demonstrating how IoTMediator outperforms prior state-of-the-art work in addressing these security challenges.