Information Security, Data Preservation and Digital Forensics
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Security and Privacy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 8119
Special Issue Editors
Interests: security and privacy; industrial informatics; technology-enhanced learning
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Interests: codes theory; data bases; data protection; watermarking
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to present contemporary problems and challenges in information security, data preservation and digital forensics, as well as possible solutions in the form of developed approaches, methods, methodologies and algorithms. The role of technologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence is also within the scope of consideration, due to their ever-increasing importance for implementing preventive and countermeasures corresponding to the complexity and severity of the attacks being conducted. Due to the sophistication of cybercrimes and the application of anti-forensic techniques by offenders, it is also necessary to create appropriate approaches for identifying and analyzing digital evidence. Studying the human behavior of the victim and attacker also contributes to understanding and reconstructing the cyber scene.
We want to invite authors who, through reviews or original research papers, will discuss and present important topics and point to future directions and trends.
The main topics are, but are not limited to, the following:
- Strategies in information security;
- Risk assessment;
- Modeling of contemporary attacks;
- Systems and applications security;
- Cryptography approaches;
- Human factors security;
- Data preservation techniques and algorithms;
- GDPR-based privacy;
- Privacy by design;
- Digital forensic models;
- Identification and analysis of evidence;
- Human behavior modeling.
Dr. Malinka Spasova Ivanova
Dr. Galina Bogdanova
Dr. Tomaž Klobučar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- information security
- contemporary attacks
- applications security
- data preservation
- privacy by design
- digital forensics
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