Network Generations and the Security Challenge in IoT Applications

Networks exist all around on the planet, and inside the brain of every living organism. On the city streets we see transport networks, inside homes and organizations we see water piping networks. And in the digital information age we see the rise of the computer networks and the mobile networks and their upgrade from generation to generation. We need networks for efficient sharing of resources and as human beings the most valuable thing that we can share along the time from age to age is our data that could represent our knowledge and information represented through text, voice, image, and video. In this paper we provide a quick overview on network generation and IoT applications. Also, we point to the security threats in these generations.