An Empirical Study on the Security Priorities in the Future Battlefield Environment in Internet of Things

Recently, our military has adopted Cloud, Big Data, IoT, etc. to effectively complete missions. We can thus expect to nurture combat oriented elite forces and build favorable future battle environment based on soldiers equipped with various technology including IoT. Similar to original internet environment, IoT confronts various kinds of security threats on network, data, privacy as well as identification management for each of its characterized protocol. Thus, in order to strengthen security environment in the future IoT based battlespace, a research on security priority is required. Recent survey on military IT experts shows communication/network security is the most important field. Furthermore, the survey also distinguished security fields that could be considered fragile. By referring to the result of this research where study on future IoT based battlespace is reflected on security specialized military structure, we should be effectively prepared for the expected threats within the given amount of budget.