Algorithms for Cyber Defense: From Cryptography to Behavioral Analysis
A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 2245
Special Issue Editor
2. Military Technical Academy "Ferdinand I", 050141 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: algorithms; cybersecurity; software; electronics; bioinformatics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the full spectrum of algorithms used in modern cyber defense. We welcome both theoretical and applied contributions in areas such as encryption and decryption methods, authentication schemes, secure key exchange, anomaly detection, static analysis, intrusion detection, reverse engineering of malicious code, adversarial learning, and security-aware AI models. We encourage submissions that bridge formal algorithm design with practical implementations in security-critical systems, ranging from embedded devices to large-scale infrastructure. This Issue serves as a platform for engineers, data scientists, and security researchers to share breakthroughs that redefine digital defense.
In addition to original research articles, review papers are also welcome in this Special Issue, and in fact, they are highly encouraged. The academic field of cyber security is still in its infancy, only just beginning to open its eyes. The field is so young that authors often find themselves compelled to step outside traditional academic norms, citing online resources and web-links instead of well-established works in the literature (which is almost blasphemy from a classical perspective). This situation highlights the crucial importance of review articles: they not only provide structure and clarity in a rapidly evolving academic domain, but are also bound to become highly cited references in the future.
Dr. Paul A. Gagniuc
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- algorithms
- cyber defense
- encryption and decryption methods
- authentication schemes
- secure key exchange
- anomaly detection
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