Enhanced Cyber-Physical Security in IoT
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 July 2022) | Viewed by 9623
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber and information security
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as the key pillar of Industry 4.0 standard and critical cyber-physical infrastructures. IoT describes the network of physical devices and entities in the form of embedded technology for sensing, actuating, and communicating data with other devices and systems. Typically, IoT devices are connected to the Internet for data exchange, making IoT devices vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks such as data spoofing and sniffing, sybil attacks, and DoS attacks. In addition, IoT devices are mostly deployed in an open environment, making them vulnerable to physical attacks such as node injection, object tampering, and side-channel attacks. Many challenges are encountered when addressing the cyber and physical security of the IoT with regard to hardware, software, architecture, data, protocols, safety, design, implementation, verification, and validation.
The Special Issue seeks original scientific research/implementation papers that contribute to enhancing the cyber and physical security of the IoT. The main topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Cyber and physical security issues in IoT;
- Safety, governance, risk, threat, and trust management in IoT;
- Vulnerability and exploitation scanning for IoT;
- Risk and threat modelling in IoT;
- Verification and validation of IoT security;
- Resilience of IoT devices and systems against attacks;
- Secure design of IoT systems, hardware, software, and protocols;
- Trusted execution environments (TEEs) for IoT;
- Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) for IoT;
- Security and reliability of IoT data;
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for IoT security;
- Security of machine-to-machine communication in IoT;
- Blockchain solutions for IoT systems;
- Post-quantum and quantum-enabled security.
Prof. Dr. Arif Ghafoor
Dr. Muhamad Felemban
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cybersecurity
- physical security
- IoT
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