Cyber Security Challenges in the New Smart Worlds

Dear Colleagues,

The ever-increasing smart technologies, applications, and infrastructures offer enormous opportunities. However, new unprecedented security and privacy challenges and emerging security threats that are hard to detect using traditional tools emerge since these hyperconnected systems are highly prone to cyber-attacks and other forms of security threats at all layers. Cybersecurity management systems need to be designed to adapt to the changing security threats autonomously without user intervention and provide maximum protection against intrusions, malware, and various types of cyber-attacks. This Special Issue focuses on advanced cybersecurity technologies and new, improved security techniques of information theory for complex smart systems, providing the grounds for discussion that not only takes the device security into account but also their grid-interconnected network. Many intelligent techniques have a great potential to evolve cyber threat detection and can be integrated into cybersecurity systems to provide more innovative, secure, and robust privacy-preserving solutions for personal and ubiquitous systems. Integration plays a crucial role in providing enhanced security for intelligent autonomous systems and enables organizations to change their security landscape.

We encourage original submissions on the most recent advances in the field of security related to theoretical and applied cutting-edge research on standards, frameworks, models, and approaches to cybersecurity management in smart environments in the era of intelligent learning and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Dr. Agostino Forestiero
Dr. Mohamed Abd Elaziz
Guest Editors

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