Kevin Kornegay, "IoT Device Security in a Zero Trust Environment"

The mission of the Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center
at Morgan State University is to provide the defense and
intelligence community with the knowledge, methodology, solutions,
and highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to mitigate
penetration and manipulation of our nation’s cyber-physical
infrastructure. Internet of Things (IoT) devices permeate all areas
of life and work, with unprecedented economic effects. Critical
infrastructures in transportation, smart grid, manufacturing,
health care, and many others depend on embedded systems for
distributed control, tracking, and data collection. While
protecting these systems from hacking, intrusion, and physical
tampering is paramount, current solutions rely on unsustainable
patchwork solutions. Transformative solutions are required to
protect systems where the ubiquity of connectivity and
heterogeneity of IoT devices exacerbate the attack surface. Our
research focuses on the convergence of IoT, 5G, and artificial
intelligence in the context of the Zero Trust networks. We will
present our security-in-depth approach to provide secure and
resilient operation.