A Review of Moving Target Defense Mechanisms for Internet of Things Applications

Abstract

The chapter presents a review of proactive Moving Target Defense (MTD) paradigm and investigates the feasibility and potential of specific MTD approaches for the resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The aim is not only to provide taxonomy of various MTD approaches but also to advocate MTD techniques in the dynamic network domain in conjunction with the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) for more effective proactive IoT defense. The Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT), which subject to more attacks, are identified as two critical IoT domains that can reap from the SDN-based MTD approaches. Finally, the chapter also discusses potential future research challenges of the MTD approaches in the IoT domain. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.