Security Perspectives of Various IoT Cloud Platforms: A Review & Case Study

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a cutting edge technology equipped with sensors, smart boards, actuators, and internet for a meaningful purpose. The growth of IoT requires high-performance, greater storage, reliability, and scalability. In order to attain these attributes, future vision, and business perspective of companies is to converge the Cloud and IoT ecosystem. Cloud computing is a web-based technology that offers speed, convenience, on-demand services, and analytical power to the raw data. Security is one of the crucial aspects of IoT cloud platforms. In this paper, a detailed discussion and comparison of various IoT cloud platforms with their security perspectives. A case study has also been performed to demonstrate a security breach by launching a Man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) between the sensor node and AWS IoT communication channel. We hope that our work will useful and informative to the research community who is working in the area of IoT security.