Security in Internet of Things (IoT): Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last decade, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has made the leap from conceptual to actual, paving the way for a wide range of applications and digital services, such as smart homes and cities, smart grids, wearables, connected healthcare, and environmental monitoring, resulting in unprecedented levels of connectivity across the world. IoT networks comprise a slew of embedded sensor devices with limited processing, storage, and power, resources interlinked by various interconnects that often exhibit considerable unreliability, low data rates, and instability. The limited resources of IoT devices coupled with the constraints imposed by their interconnects have raised numerous security challenges that need to be tackled to pave the way for wider adoption of IoT. In addition, the manufacturers of IoT devices usually overlook security, rendering their released products vulnerable to attacks. These security issues are further complicated by the heterogeneity of IoT networks and devices, thus increasing the difficulty of deploying all-inclusive security solutions. Accordingly,  it is crucial to devise solutions that address such security gaps, a field that is attracting overwhelming attention from researchers. Hence, this Special Issue aims to bring together novel contributions and recent advances from both academia and industry in the field of IoT security. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Secure IoT communication protocols and technologies; 
• Intrusion detection systems for IoT; 
• Threat modeling and risk assessment in IoT; 
• Malware detection in IoT; 
• Privacy-preserving techniques for IoT;
• Novel attacks in IoT and related countermeasures;
• Lightweight and Homomorphic security protocols for IoT; 
• ML-based intrusion detection in IoT;
• Security protocols in 5G/6G IoT networks; 
• Secure protocols for IoT standards (IPv6, 6LoWPAN, RPL, 6TiSCH, etc.).

Dr. Baraq Ghaleb
Guest Editor

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