Analysis of threats on EPC based RFID systems

Detecting and responding to security and privacy threats on Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technologies are becoming one of the major concerns of information security researchers. However, and before going further in these activities, an evaluation of threats in terms of importance must be done. We present in this paper an evaluation of threats on Electronic Product Code (EPC) based RFID systems. We analyze the set of threats according to the methodology proposed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and we rank these threats in order of relevance. This ranking may be used for researchers and professionals to prioritize threats for future security research on EPC applications (e.g., research on appropriate countermeasure mechanisms).