The field of Internet of Things (IoT) is moving towards enhancing security and dependability in low-power and resource-limited devices. Researchers are focusing on developing innovative frameworks and protocols that guarantee confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of data, while also ensuring breach-resiliency and compact authentication tags. Context-aware protocols are being explored to improve dependability in large-scale IoT deployments. Additionally, new modulation techniques such as LR-FHSS are being investigated to enhance IoT connectivity in urban environments. Noteworthy papers in this area include:

• Graphene, a symmetric Forward-secure and Aggregate Authenticated Encryption framework designed for low-end IoT infrastructures, which achieves significant performance gains over existing alternatives.
• FAARM, a lightweight Firmware Attestation and Authentication framework that prevents malicious firmware subversion in GPU Trusted Execution Environments.
• A two-step protocol design framework that incorporates operation-specific context fields to enhance system dependability in IoT networks.