Emerging Information Technologies in the Field of Cyber Defense

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber attacks are evolving in accordance with the gradual development of IT technologies such as self-driving cars, IoT systems, and AI avatars. The STUXNET virus, which uses a worm virus that does no damage unless certain conditions are activated, and WormGPT, a generative AI-based criminal tool that attacks only the intended target, can be seen as examples that directly demonstrate the evolution of these cyber attacks. It is important to block these cyber attacks in advance, and it is also important to prevent recurrence by applying defensive actions after a cyber attack occurs. However, since multiple defensive actions can exist for each attack technique, rather than 1:1 matching, which applies defensive actions to each attack technique, more effective and efficient cyber defense technologies applying multiple defensive actions to defend against a specific attack have many advantages in terms of money and time.

Therefore, this Special Issue encourages the submission of state-of-the-art research in cyber defense, as well as fundamental research relevant to the subject. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following subject categories:

• Machine learning for cyber defense;
• Information security for cyber defense;
• Countermeasures against cyber attacks;
• Cyber defense algorithms;
• Cyber defense for cyber terrorism;
• Cyber defense for social networking threats;
• Big data security in cyber defense;
• Digital forensics in cyber defense.

Prof. Dr. Dongkyoo Shin
Prof. Dr. Dongil Shin
Guest Editors

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