Lightweight Cryptography, Cybersecurity and IoT

Dear Colleagues,

In this extremely connected world, where companies and governments use cyberspace in their daily activities, the need for cybersecurity is imposed to protect this new ecosystem in its entirety. In addition, most of this massive connectivity comes from the eruption of the Internet of Things, in which thousands of devices have invaded cyberspace with sensitive data, such as of cyberphysical systems, health monitoring, vehicle communications, chains of supplies, and many more.

The Internet of Things is so diverse that it has led to terms such as Internet of the Vehicles, Internet of Industrial Systems, Internet of Energy, etc. Therefore, cybersecurity has become a transversal discipline to all areas permeated by new technological advances, such as cloud computing, machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence, to name but a few. Certainly, cybersecurity becomes an urgent need if you want to guarantee the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of the generated data, transmitted and /or stored on the devices that comprise the Internet of Things. Privacy and security must be ensured to generate trust in data, which is a decisive factor in making critical decisions for the development of all areas involved in this interconnected world.

Many of these devices work on resource-constrained platforms, which means that they may have reduced computational capacity as well as limited energy consumption. They can be found throughout the global geography, connected across the internet using sensor and wireless networks, thus expanding the cyberattack surface in these networks and devices. Lightweight cryptography deals with implementing lightweight cryptographic primitives to fulfil its essential role in guaranteeing the security in these constrained environments.

For this Special Issue, we would like to invite researchers who are working on research issues related to these areas to contribute with details of high-quality innovative theoretical and practical work based on advanced technologies. Surveys of the state-of-the-art are also welcome. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Lightweight cryptographic primitives and protocols
• Securing IoT system architecture
• Securing IoT communication and networking protocols
• Secure design for IoT use cases
• Cybersecurity of smart cities
• Cybersecurity in IoT enabling technologies
• Secure IoT experiments
• Cryptography and cybersecurity
• Cryptography and network security
• Authentication and biometry in IoT
• Intrusion detection systems
• Denial-of-service attacks and defenses
• Vulnerability analysis techniques
• Cyberphysical systems security
• Security and privacy for cloud and edge computing

Dr. Amalia Beatriz Orúe López
Dr. Cristina Romero Tris
Prof. Dr. Slobodan Petrovic
Guest Editors

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