Threats to Networking Cloud and Edge Datacenters in the Internet of Things

Several application domains are collecting data using Internet of Things sensing devices and shipping it to remote cloud datacenters for analysis (fusion, storage, and processing). Data analytics activities raise a new set of technical challenges from the perspective of ensuring end-to-end security and privacy of data as it travels from an edge datacenter (EDC) to a cloud datacenter (CDC) (or vice versa). This article discusses the security threats in EDCs and CDCs by dividing the complete network structure into three layers: perception layer, network layer, and application layer.