Future Cybersecurity Challenges for IoE Networks

The concept of smart communication systems evidently changed the way the computers were initially thought to be. Irrespective of the evolution in both wired and wireless networks, the extent of connecting devices started increasing with the advancement in computing devices. The launch of smart phones opened new horizons in terms of wireless technologies. To fully reap the technological benefits, the concept of everywhere and anywhere pushed a massive increase in the number of devices need to be linked. This is further complimented by the end user wish of seeing the daily life things to be connected to the Internet, and it gave birth to the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT ultimately opened up with endless possibilities and lead to the Industrial Revolution. The advancement in IoT is being viewed as Internet of Everything (IoE) with the incorporation of people in the existing triangle of process, data, and things. Thus, the ecosystem of IoE enables machine-to-machine, people-to-people, and people-to-machine communication. However, this major shift not only provides a lot of new capabilities but also poses new challenges in the form of complex networks and security issues. This chapter presents the future cybersecurity challenges, demand for new and integrated security architecture for IoE network, and explores the security architecture requirements from application’s perspective. This chapter also identifies future research challenges that still need to be addressed to improve cybersecurity in IoE networks.