The first phase is to look at some recent papers from top-rated journals and conferences in the area. If you have access to IEEE Xplore, it will help you a great deal. I suggest you look for papers published in the past 3 years. Reading them will help you come up with a research problem that interests you and which is also of interest to the community.
See https://www.journals.elsevier.com/network-security
if you are stronger in mathematics then start to read some Research articles related to key transfer protocol in WSNs by using some Schemes such as Secret sharing Schemes-SSS. this is theoretical Research and very hot topic Now adays.