Cyber-Security in Smart Cities: Challenges and Solution

Dear Colleagues,

Technological advancements, including smart cities and their building blocks (e.g., WSNs and IoT-connected devices) have created an internet of vulnerabilities (IoV) which is put at risk by an alarming rise in adversarial cyber-attacks targeting a wide range of systems and applications. It is apparent that more novelty will be critical to enhance the current state of cybersecurity across multiple domains, technologies and industries, particularly smart cities, WSNs and the IoT ecosystem to ensure the resilience and trust in our systems.

To that end, this Special Issue titled “Cyber-Security in Smart Cities: Challenges and Solution” invites scholars proposing new original research and developments in the domain of security and privacy that pertain to the domains of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), IoT ecosystem, smart cities, networks, and communications. We particularly encourage submissions with high-quality research and scholarly works proposing theoretical, practical, innovative and scalable approaches to cyber-security and privacy in its broad definition, as well as comprehensive literature reviews and surveys.

This Special Issue on “Cyber-Security in Smart Cities: Challenges and Solution” solicits articles in multiple domains and topics including but not limited to those listed in the provided keywords:

• Cyber-security frameworks
• Internet of things for smart cities applications
• Wireless and mobile networks security
• Data security techniques related to smart cities
• Critical infrastructures security
• Privacy and anonymity solutions for smart cities
• Secure smart cities devices communication
• IoT and mobile devices security
• Privacy and security issues for smart cities applications
• Digital forensics
• Cyber-threats against all digital systems and devices
• Cloud, fog and edge computing security
• Trust/blockchain for systems security
• AI and machine learning for security
• Effects of cyber-security on smart cities

Dr. Muath Obaidat
Dr. Kutub Thakur
Guest Editors

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