IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - May/June 2023 - 26

From the Editor's Desk
Security and Trust in Forthcoming
Consumer IoT Systems
Norbert Herencsar
Brno University of Technology
& I WELCOME THE readers to the third issue
of the year 2023, the May/June Issue of the IEEE
Consumer Electronics Magazine (MCE).
Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT) devices
are becoming increasingly popular and pervasive,
but they are often vulnerable to security breaches
and attacks due to their lack of security features.
The lack of security and trust in IoT devices poses
a significant threat to consumer privacy and
safety. As a result, research in the field of security
and trust in forthcoming CIoT systems has gained
a lot of attention in recent years. Various security
and trust mechanisms have been proposed and
implemented to address these concerns, including
device authentication, access control, encryption,
and data integrity checks. Some of the
proposed solutions use blockchain technology to
provide a tamper-proof and decentralized infrastructure,
while others use machine learning algorithms
to identify and prevent potential attacks.
However, despite these solutions, consumer IoT
devices remain vulnerable due to a lack of standardization
and regulation and the use of legacy
systems and outdated software. The complexity
and diversity of IoT systems make it difficult to
implement security and trust mechanisms uniformly
across all devices. Therefore, there is a
pressing need for standardization and regulation
of security and trust mechanisms in consumer IoT
devices to ensure the safety and privacy of users.
This would involve collaboration between various
stakeholders, including device manufacturers,
regulators, and consumers, to develop common
standards and best practices for security and
trust in forthcoming consumer IoT systems.
In this issue of MCE, it is my pleasure to provide
practitioners and researchers with highquality,
state-of-the-art articles dedicated to
security and trust in forthcoming consumer IoT
systems.
COLUMNS
Looking Beyond the Horizon: This article discusses
how the business landscape has been disrupted
in the past by emerging technologies,
such as digital imaging and cloud downloads,
and how current emerging technologies have
the potential to do the same. The impacts of
such disruptions on existing stakeholders will
also be explored.
Metaverse Meets Consumer Electronics: NowaDigital
Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2023.3254319
Date ofcurrent version 8 April 2023.
days, different technical giants are separately promoting
their metaverses resulting in " islands " of
decentralized, multicentered metaverse systems.
This column discussed the requirements of standards
and corresponding communication protocols
of the metaverse to build a unified, fully connected
metaverse ecosystem.
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