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The Internet is the most widely used medium to access remote sites. Data sent and received using transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is in plain text format and can be accessed and tampered with quite easily and, hence, provides no data security. This is the case especially if the data are confidential and access to the gateway server has to be strictly controlled, although there are several protocols and mechanisms that have been thoroughly scrutinized to tackle these problems. This paper also intends to provide a model that uses secure socket layer (SSL) to provide a secure channel between client and gateway server. A smart card will be used for client authentication and encryption/decryption of the data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes some of the preliminary work performed on a resource access control module for an instrumentation gateway. The access control module employs a variation of the popular role-based access control (RBAC) scheme described by various authors. The gateway has very little security; hence, any user able to log onto the system is able to control any resource. This module aims to implement a pluggable module whereby users are granted access to various parts of the system depending on their user rights, while giving the administrator a very powerful method of restricting access without sacrificing ease of administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in recent times, have become one of the most promising network solutions with a wide variety of applications in the areas of agriculture, environment, healthcare and the military. Notwithstanding these promising applications, sensor nodes in WSNs are vulnerable to different security attacks due to their deployment in hostile and unattended areas and their resource constraints. One of such attacks is the DoS jamming attack that interferes and disrupts the normal functions of sensor nodes in a WSN by emitting radio frequency signals to jam legitimate signals to cause a denial of service. In this work we propose a step-wise approach using a statistical process control technique to detect these attacks. We deploy an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) to detect anomalous changes in the intensity of a jamming attack event by using the packet inter-arrival feature of the received packets from the sensor nodes. Results obtained from a trace-driven simulation show that the proposed solution can efficiently and accurately detect jamming attacks in WSNs with little or no overhead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]