The block chain technology to ensure security and privacy to the IoT enabled devices is the main focus of this unit of the paper. The concept of block technology is an important security aspect of the IoT based devices. The use of this technology on those devices are known from various reliable sources as stated by the authors (Christidis, & Devetsikiotis, 2016). The information related to the integration of the technology in those devices can be also obtained from the primary sources and the technical experts.
Experts stated about the effectiveness of the technology for the IoT based systems in terms of the increased speed of the devices and the security of the digital assists of the business organization. After the introduction of the technology in 2008 the public transactions are handled in a more effective way. Based on the various types of researches it was found that the block chain technology is a very useful technology in the IoT enabled devices as it is a decentralized and distributed process. The background knowledge about the block chain technology helps in the prevention of the alteration of the data. The various scholarly articles help in the standing the specification of the block chain technology in IoT enabled devices.
The transactions of the nodes can be managed well in the IoT enabled devices (Kshetri, 2017). The IoT based systems are most of the times connected to an active internet connection so that the block chain technology helps in protection the information which are transported from one entity of the organization to another. The IoT enabled technologies such as the wireless sensors have lots of complication in its structure which are the main reason behind the use of the block chain technology as it would help in providing greater transparency to the system.
Problem statement
The problem statement of the paper can be described as there are different types of privacy and security issues associated with IoT enabled devices like threats coming from the external threats such as cyber issue like white hat and ransomeware, the use of the block chain devices will be having to deal with those issues in an efficient manner.
Justification
There are lots of issues such as the privacy and security issues associated to the IoT enabled devices. Most of the internet of things enabled electronic devices runs on the networking servers and there are lots of security issues in most of the network servers such as the presence of the deadly viruses such as the ransomeware. These issues can be solved purposefully with the help of the block chain technology (Huh, Cho & Kim, 2017). The experiences and statements of different authors about the application of the block chain technology in the internet of things enabled devices can be justified.
According to Zhang and Wen (2017), the transactions of the E-business can be solved purposefully with the help of the internet of things. The authors of this source justified the reason behind the incorporation of the block chain technology in the IoT enabled devices. The statement of the author of the selected article helps in understanding the reasons behind the application of the block chain technology to secure the IoT based devices as the implementation of this technology has already provided great results for all the users of the IoT systems. Security and the privacy issues of IoT enabled devices are improved significantly with the help of the block chain technology (Bahga & Madisetti, 2016). The authors position and point of view about the topic is justified in this scenario.
The support to the authors statement is justified as the application of the help of the block chain technology in the Internet of things enabled devices such as the banking industry which involves the transmission of essential data from the client’s side to the authority of the banking organization and vice versa (Conoscenti, Vetro & De Martin, 2016). The authors position is very much justified as the effectiveness of the block chain technology can be understood with the minimal interconnection problems of the IoT enabled devices.
Thus it can be stated that the block chain technology is very much useful in the IoT based devices to as the security issues of the transactions can be minimized efficiently. The block chain technology is very much beneficial for the IoT enabled devices but there are separate issues associated with the block chain technology as well such as the signature verification issue and data redundancy which are needed to be minimized so that the desired objectives of the block chain technology in the IoT devices are achieved.
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