With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, there are many interacting devices and applications. One crucial challenge is how to provide security. Our proposal for a new direction is to create "smart buttons" and collections of them called "smart blankets" as hardware/software security patches rather than software-only patches.
@article{arxiv.1903.05266,
title = {Hardware/Software Security Patches for Internet of Trillions of Things},
author = {John A. Stankovic and Tu Le and Abdeltawab Hendawi and Yuan Tian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05266},
year = {2019}
}