Applied Cryptography and Machine Learning for Security and Privacy Protection of Critical Infrastructures
A special issue of Cryptography (ISSN 2410-387X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 8398
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cybersecurity; artificial intelligence (AI); internet of things (IoT); smart grids; 5G/6G networks; vehicular networks; communication networks; image processing; signal processing; smart healthcare
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Interests: applied cryptography; secure protocol design; IoT security; cyber–physical systems security; digital forensics; secure blockchain applications; machine learning applications in cybersecurity
Interests: security and privacy in wireless networks including IoT and smart grid networks; privacy-preserving machine learning; machine learning for cyber-security; secure federated learning; traffic analysis attacks and countermeasures; cyber-physical systems security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will present research addressing the diverse array of topics related to the use of cryptography and machine learning in the preservation of security and privacy in critical infrastructures. These topics include, but are not limited to, preservation of security and privacy in the following: the chemical sector; the communications sector; the critical manufacturing sector; the dams sector; the defense industrial base sector; the emergency services sector; the energy sector; the financial services sector; the food and agriculture sector; the government facilities sector; the healthcare and public health sector; the information technology sector; the nuclear reactors, materials, and waste sector; the transportation systems sector; the water and wastewater systems sector. We invite scientists and researchers to submit papers for this important Special Issue, “Applied Cryptography and Machine Learning for Security and Privacy Protection of Critical Infrastructures.”
- Security and privacy preservation of critical infrastructures;
- Security and privacy preservation of healthcare systems;
- Security and privacy preservation of smart grids;
- Security and privacy preservation of nuclear reactors;
- Security and privacy preservation of communications;
- Security and privacy preservation of critical manufacturing.
Dr. Mostafa Fouda
Dr. Ahmad Alsharif
Dr. Mohamed Ibrahem
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cyber security
- authentication and identification
- blockchain
- machine learning and big data
- anomaly detection and malware identification
- digital forensics
- trust management
- risk analysis
- critical infrastructure
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