Secure IoT

Faculty member holding an IoT device in his hands.

Hanif Rahbari heads RIT’s Wireless & Internet of Things Privacy and Security Lab, or WISP, where he and his team work to make wireless systems, especially vehicle-to-vehicle communications for connected vehicles, more secure and reliable. As driver assistance and autonomous driving systems become more common, helping prevent thousands of deaths each year, their security against denial-of-service and spoofing attacks only becomes more critical.

In 2023, Rahbari was recognized with an NSF CAREER award for his work to make vehicles more secure against quantum attacks.

His team also studies the security of Wi-Fi itself and spectrum sharing between Wi-Fi and 5G cellular systems in order to help protect their growing applications from various privacy, spoofing, and denial-of-service attacks. They use machine learning, applied cryptography, and formal verification, along with prototyping and testbed implementations to build solutions that will protect against attacks, including future quantum attacks.