Emerging Trends and Approaches to Cyber Security

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber security in general has attracted massive interest from academia, government and industry in recent years, because of the advent of future internet, pervasive connection of devices and high-profile cyberattacks. The threat landscape is ever increasing with cyber attackers being proactive every day and utilizing the latest technologies such as AI and Machine Learning together with the intrinsic vulnerabilities that exists in the current hyper-connected world and Internet of Things/Everything. This is fueled further by the rapid development and deployment of 5G related technologies. This provides opportunities for the research communities to keep acquainted with the latest, ever increasing and emerging threat landscapes for a securer, safer and more resilient digital system and digital infrastructure. Moreover, the threat landscape spans multilayer in the infrastructure from physical, network and to the application layer thus making this an interdisciplinary research area. 

This special issue focusses on emerging trends and technologies in the broad area of cyber security and include all aspects of the modelling, design, implementation, deployment, and management of security algorithms, protocols, architectures, and system, from physical-layer technology to the application layer.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Physical layer security on 5G and beyond 5G technology

* IoT security and privacy

* Resilient IoT framework based on AI/Machine Learning

* Threat detection with AI/ML

* Lightweight cryptographic algorithms for IoT devices

* Biometric and emerging authentication technologies

* Malware detection

* Security and privacy in fog/edge computing

* Security in connected and autonomous vehicles

* Cyber Threat Intelligence

* Secure software development framework

* Social aspects to cyber security

* Cyber crime law

Dr. Rupak Kharel
Prof. Dr. Krishna Busawon
Guest Editors

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