Deployment and Scalability of Ubuntu Core in IoT Ecosystems

While the count of IoT devices is increasing every day, so do the incidents associating with IoT devices. Most of the IoT devices lack security protections, thereby posing a threat to them and exposing it to attacks like the one carried out by 2016’s Mirai Botnet. Researchers aimed for improving security and mitigating risks associated with IoT devices. To this, the researchers developed various open-source operating systems, as well as dependable and secure operating systems in particular for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paper describes the deployment and scalability of one of such operating systems, namely Ubuntu Core.