An IoT-fuzzy based password checker system for wireless video surveillance system

Abstract

Wireless video surveillance systems (WVSS) are deployed in large environments for use in strategic places such as town centers, public streets, and airports and play an essential role in protecting critical infrastructure. However, WVSSs are vulnerable to unauthorized access due to weak login credentials, which leads to their exploitation to launch cyberattacks on other systems, such as distributed denial-of-service attacks. Hence, it is essential to secure these systems from unauthorized access. This paper proposes the Mamdani fuzzy inference system (FIS)-based password checker algorithm to estimate the password strength ratio (PSR) of internet protocol (IP) cameras and internet of things (IoT) devices. This algorithm composes three stages, the password extraction stage, which evaluates the input parameters of FIS from the real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) protocol using a counter of password characters. Then, the processing stage uses Mamdani FIS to optimize the input parameters to calculate the PSR. Finally, the alarm stage will notify the system administrator about weak IoT nodes. Unlike the existing approaches, this algorithm improves detection accuracy by informing the system administrator about threatened nodes. Extensive experiments are carried out to determine the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. The results confirm the efficiency of the proposed algorithm with high accuracy, which outperforms existing schemes.