Advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) : Attacks Detection and Privacy Protection
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 83
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Interests: IoT/IIoT vulnerability analysis and security; artificial internet of things operational technologies
Interests: multimedia networks; streaming; QoE; QoS; IoTs; cloud computing
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Interests: computer security; cyber security; privacy; information security; cryptography; intrusion detection; malware; trust; anonymity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is an effort to highlight the critical security and privacy aspects of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that employ sensors to collect real-time data, utilize processing applications, and exchange information across connected devices over communication networks. These smart embedded devices provide core functionalities in diverse sectors, including healthcare, transportation, industrial control systems, agriculture, smart homes, smart cities, and smart enterprises, to name a few. The applications of IoT in smart cyber–physical systems lure malicious threat actors to exploit vulnerabilities through unique tactics, techniques, and procedures. It is essential to explore the design, implementation, and operational flaws in these web-enabled embedded systems. This Special Issue encourages researchers, engineers, academicians, security practitioners, and analysts to investigate IoT-based smart environments to identify attack patterns, enhance vulnerability detection mechanisms, optimize rule set generation, create state-of-the-art datasets, explore the integration of edge and fog computing, report enhanced privacy protection operations, and secure network and communication protocols.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- AIoT: artificial intelligence of things;
- IoT firmware exploits;
- IoT application security;
- IoT design/implementation challenges;
- IoT privacy protection;
- IoT malware (attack and defence);
- IoT and digital twins;
- IoT in critical infrastructures;
- IoT in urban life (smart cyber–physical systems);
- IoT in manufacturing and industry;
- IoT applications and cloud integration;
- IoT network and communication security;
- IoT XDR (extended detection and response) integration;
- IoT access controls—authentication and authorization;
- IoT cryptographic controls.
Dr. Sadaf Hina
Dr. Miguel García-Pineda
Dr. Luis Javier García Villalba
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- IoT ecosystem
- smart cyber–physical systems
- IoT security and privacy
- vulnerabilities and exploitation
- AI in IoT
- networks and communication
- IoT and cloud
- consumer and enterprise IoT applications
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