AI-Driven Network Security and Privacy

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, new information technologies and their applications, such as big data, blockchain and artificial intelligence, have developed very rapidly. At the same time, the application of these new information technologies faces severe challenges in data security, communication security and privacy protection, such as network attacks, data destruction, disclosure of private information, etc., which seriously affects the promotion and application of new information technologies. To ensure the security of new information technologies in scenarios such as smart life, smart city, and smart network, etc., and promote and enhance the development of network security, we organized a Special Issue of "AI-Driven Network Security and Privacy". In this Special Issue, the new generation network attack and defense technology, new secure cryptographic algorithm, data security and privacy protection technology, network and communication security protocol, security analysis and evaluation of new application scenarios are discussed. We call for papers in this Special Issue to provide a platform to discuss, exchange insights and share experiences among researchers, industry specialists and application developers.

Authors are kindly invited to submit original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy in networks. We especially welcome submissions that present implementation and deployment results. Topics of interest for submission include but are not limited to:

• Network countermeasures and defense using artificial intelligence;
• AI-driven communication network security and privacy protection;
• Secure and resilient communication and control architecture;
• Complex network algorithms for network security;
• Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control;
• Secure data sharing, digital signature and multi-party secure computing;
• Security, reliability and privacy of communication networks;
• Search on protected/encrypted data;
• Privacy-preserving techniques;
• Usable security and privacy;
• Web application security;
• Secure collaboration;
• Secure data provenance;
• Social networking security and privacy;
• Security and privacy in the Internet of Things;
• Public key schemes, such as their design and analysis (including side channel attacks);
• Public-key techniques in MPC or other protocols;
• New applications of cryptography;
• Novel cryptographic constructs;
• Assessment and measurement of security threats and vulnerabilities;
• Security policy specification and management in communication networks.

Prof. Dr. Yu-an Tan
Dr. Qikun Zhang
Dr. Yuanzhang Li
Dr. Xiao Yu
Guest Editors

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