Advanced Cyber Defense and Intelligent Threat Analytics

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing sophistication, scale, and automation of modern cyber threats pose unprecedented challenges to the security and dependability of digital infrastructures. Attack surfaces are expanding across cloud, edge, IoT, and cyber–physical systems, while adversaries increasingly leverage automation and artificial intelligence to evade traditional defense mechanisms. In this context, advanced cyber defense strategies and intelligent threat analytics have become essential to detect, analyze, and mitigate complex attacks in a timely and reliable manner.

This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research on innovative methodologies, tools, and frameworks for cyber defense, with a strong emphasis on data-driven and AI-enabled threat analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, machine learning and deep learning for intrusion detection, threat intelligence and correlation, automated vulnerability analysis, adversarial and robust AI for security, attack modeling and simulation, and security analytics for cloud, edge, and IoT environments. Contributions addressing real-world deployments, empirical evaluations, and interdisciplinary approaches bridging cybersecurity, software engineering, and artificial intelligence are especially encouraged. Particular attention is given to the design of benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation methodologies for cyber defense systems, promoting reproducibility, comparability, and realistic assessment of security solutions.

Dr. Pietro Liguori
Dr. Raffaele Della Corte
Guest Editors

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