Secure Integration of IoT and Cloud Computing
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Cybersecurity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 583
Special Issue Editors
Interests: trusted computing technology; database security technology; IoT security issues; cloud computing, virtualization technology and security issues
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cloud Computing provides an elastic infrastructure to support large-scale computing of massive data. Since the feature of “on-demand computing” in Cloud Computing, it can be adopted as an ideal technology in processing large-scale, heterogeneous, and complex data continuously generated by IoT platforms. The computing resources can be allocated, resized, and divided according to the dynamic data scale and computing requirements via virtualization technologies. Therefore, integrating IoT and Cloud Computing can significantly improve the power of IoT platforms.
However, due to the open network and the inevitable vulnerabilities of software/hardware, Cloud servers, and IoT devices have to face cyber-attacks, which can intrude and conduct malicious behaviors, such as stealing/tampering with sensitive data, interfering the program execution, creating zombie nodes via compromising devices, etc. Additionally, whenever an IoT device or a Cloud server/virtual machine has been compromised, the attackers can expand the attack surface to other entities (physical devices or virtual machines) via a network and cause further damage to the platform. Hence, security mechanisms towards IoT and Cloud Computing platforms must be considered comprehensively rather than taken independently.
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the latest developments regarding security mechanisms towards IoT and Cloud Computing systems, including security approaches from terminal devices to Cloud servers, virtual nodes to physical devices, and individual devices to the whole platform. Both theoretical and technical aspects are of interest. Interdisciplinary approaches are also highly welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication in the IoT and Cloud environment;
- Confidentiality and integrity protection during run-time code;
- Trusted Computing technologies used in IoT or Cloud devices, such TPM and TEE;
- Secure data management via novel architecture or technologies in both IoT and Cloud environment;
- Security integration theories and technical solutions for both IoT and Cloud Computing platforms;
- Security solutions for virtualization layer in IoT or Cloud Computing platforms;
- Secure data transmission between heterogeneous devices;
- Confidentiality and integrity protection for high-speed generation and massive data;
- Analysis and discussion on threats in IoT and Cloud platforms.
Dr. Di Lu
Dr. Yichuan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- security mechanism
- security integration
- IoT
- cloud computing
- authentication methods
- data security
- system security
- program security
- virtualization security
- network security
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