New Trends in Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection

Dear Colleagues,

The evolution of computing and communications, coupled with the proliferation of lightweight handheld smart/autonomous Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has led to vast amounts of digital data, including personal information (biometrics, ID credentials, logistics, healthcare and many other domains), corporate records and even national/state classified secrets, being stored and manipulated via institutional offshore server-based cloud facilities.

While informatization and digitization have been fundamentally innovative for the way we live and work during the last decade, they have also exposed security issues for individuals, businesses and large-scale national organizations. This has introduced new vulnerabilities and privacy challenges for cybersecurity experts, making the uninterrupted supply of secure and trustworthy networked services more challenging than ever. Furthermore, although data analysis is being actively studied across academia, corporations and governments, the advent of sophisticated malware and ransomware targeting sensitive digital data highlights the necessity of targeted research to solve this problem.

This Special Issue aims to advance the state of the art by gathering original research in the field of software-intensive systems, exploring the fundamental connections between the theory of information protection and extensive research on security issues for digital assets and various IT systems and devices.

Dr. Christos Smiliotopoulos
Prof. Dr. Stefanos Gritzalis
Guest Editors

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