Security management of 5G and IoT ecosystems

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, the world is faced with economic and societal challenges such as ageing of population, ensuring societal cohesion, and sustainable development. The introduction of digital technologies in economic and societal processes is key to address these challenges and, while fifth generation (5G) mobile communications are already upon us, the next steps in their evolution will be key in supporting this societal transformation while also leading to a fourth industrial revolution that will impact multiple sectors. 5G is expected to transform our lives and unleash enormous economic potential. There is now the opportunity to define and develop 5G networks technologies with long term and sustainable support of new and diverse connected devices and services, towards the realization of the pervasive computing vision.

Nevertheless, some important challenges and complexities will have to be addressed on the way towards the provision of pervasive mobile 5G services, such as: sustaining massively generated network traffic with heterogeneous requirements; providing networking infrastructures featuring end-to-end connectivity, security and resource self-configuration; enabling trusted information sharing between tenants and hosts systems, and, ultimately; enabling new services and applications (e.g., communications with smart vehicles, high-speed trains, drones, industrial robots). These present diverse and often-conflicting needs for high bandwidth, lower latency, better reliability, massive connection density and improved energy efficiency. Moreover, this increasing complexity of smart environments and the unprecedented levels of data sharing and cyber systems interoperability have also led to increasingly sophisticated, stealthy, targeted, and multi-faceted cyber-attacks. In light of the latter, the provision of effective management of the associated cyber security risks in organizations and enterprises is becoming even more important, due to the sheer complexity of cyber systems that need to be secured and the ever-increasing number and level of sophistication of cyber-attacks. The provision of effective and comprehensive security training in organizations and enterprises is becoming even more important due to the sheer complexity of cyber systems that need to be secured and the ever-increasing number and level of sophistication of cyber-attacks.

We invite submissions of full research and survey papers on topics related to cybersecurity.

Dr. George Hatzivasilis
Prof. Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis
Dr. Konstantinos Fysarakis
Guest Editors

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