Abstract: The Internet of Things is emerging as a critical technology of the next decade, but no-one has yet asked what a security-driven architecture for these applications would look like. The web has shown us that applying existing technologies and a rush to development lead to tremendous security flaws that have piecemeal solutions.

Insup Lee is Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor of Computer and Information Science and Director of PRECISE Center, which he co-founded in 2008 at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include cyber- physical systems (CPS), real-time systems, embedded systems, high- confidence medical device systems, formal methods, run-time verification, assurance cases, CPS security, and trust management. The theme of his research activities has been to assure and improve the safety, security, and timeliness of life-critical embedded systems.

Liuyang Lily Yang (aka Lily Yang) is a Principal Engineer in Security and Privacy Research at Intel Labs, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. Lily joined Intel in 1995 and over the last 21 years has held a number of positions at Intel in research, standard development, R&D management, product planning, product management and now academic partnership management.