Dear Colleagues,

Internet of Things (IoT) systems continue to experience rapid growth and have been used in numerous applications (e.g., smart healthcare, smart home, smart grid). The number of IoT devices is expected to surpass that of mobile phones by 2025.  Clearly, it is unlikely that there will be no vulnerabilities in such a vast number of IoT devices.  As such, it is imperative to discover these vulnerabilities and fix them before they can be exploited. Meanwhile, a lack of proper protections would also expose critical facilities and Internet-connected IoT systems to widespread cyber-attacks (e.g., device fingerprinting attacks may threaten the privacy of the IoT devices). As such, IoT security and privacy is increasingly important for both societies and individuals.

To respond to this urgent call, in this Special Issue, we will discuss the possible attack surface of IoT devices by proposing the attacks with novel insights or performing measurement studies and case studies to understand the impacts of the attacks. We will propose novel detection methods, which can effectively identify a specific attack or a wide range of attacks against IoT devices. We will also propose and discuss the security protection of IoT devices. The Special Issue will present the state of the science for the most relevant problems in IoT security and privacy, and contribute to the IoT ecosystem in academic and industrial areas. We invite investigators to submit original research articles to this Special Issue.

Potential submission topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Attacks against security and privacy of IoT devices with novel insights; 
• Case studies on attacks against IoT devices;
• Measurement studies on attacks against IoT devices with novel results;
• Detection methods for IoT device vulnerabilities;
• IoT protocol security;
• Security and privacy protection for IoT devices;
• Intrusion and anomaly detection for IoT devices.

Dr. Yue Zhang
Prof. Dr. Yinghui Zhang
Dr. Gang Han
Dr. Ming Li
Guest Editors

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• IoT
• IoT protocol security
• intrusion