Cyber Security, Design and Applications in Smart Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 72
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber security; privacy; IoT; formal methods
Interests: cyber security; pervasive computing; formal methods; software engineering
Interests: IoT security and privacy; intrusion detection systems; incident response
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Dear Colleagues,
Smart systems are able to sense their environmental context and adapt their behavior as this context changes in order to provide appropriate services to the user in any situation. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an enabling technology for smart systems, as it makes it possible to turn any object into a smart object that is able to sense its current situation, adapt to new situations, and communicate with other smart objects. There are a growing number of applications emerging from IoT technology, including cyber–physical systems, smart homes, smart healthcare, intelligent transportation, and smart cities. However, smart systems introduce potential vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could impact national, economic, and public health security. Cyber threat activity against smart systems is increasing globally, and the interconnection of the infrastructures of smart things and smart systems increases the attack surface and heightens the potential consequences of compromise.
Consequently, developing secure smart systems for defending against various cyber attacks is challenging due to a number of reasons: they are highly distributed and large-scale, the network nodes are heterogeneous, they involve resource-constrained mobile devices, and their requirements are not fixed and change frequently.
Therefore, to cope with the aforementioned challenges, this Special Issue welcomes original and innovative perspectives on methods, theories, frameworks, and systems related to all of the fundamental aspects of cyber security and privacy in the field of smart systems, including IoT and cyber–physical systems. We invite contributions of original papers and survey papers to this Special Issue. In addition, we will accept substantially extended versions of conference papers in this field.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Security and privacy in IoT;
- Security and privacy in cloud computing;
- Cyber security risk assessments, platforms, and frameworks;
- Cyber security in smart systems;
- Threat surface analysis and detection in smart systems;
- Cloud security risk;
- Incident response and mitigation;
- Protective measures in smart systems;
- Machine learning mechanisms for cyber security;
- Cyber attacks in smart systems;
- Intrusion detection and prevention systems for smart systems;
- Privacy preservation in AI-enabled networks for smart systems;
- Lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication mechanisms.
Dr. Vasileios Germanos
Dr. Francois Siewe
Prof. Dr. Leandros Maglaras
Dr. Wen Zeng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- security
- privacy
- smart systems
- AI
- IoT
- cyber–physical systems
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