A Review on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Security for Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm involves new characteristics, techniques and threats that cannot be completely taken into consideration through the traditional formulation of security problems. The IoT calls for a new paradigm of security, which will have to consider the security problem as a comprehensive approach including the new actors and their interactions. Biologically inspired models for security have been more flourishing to put up the wonderful defense in securing ad hoc networks. Because of the features of ad hoc network, they require a strong, decentralized security mechanism. The similarities between the biological phenomenon's and the operations of the network make bio inspired approach a interesting field for research. In this paper we explore various biologically inspired approaches to security in IoT and significant findings as well as a brief illustration of research gap for various robust and computationally efficient security techniques in IoT.