Advances in Cybersecurity for Cloud, IoT, and Networked Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and networked systems has significantly transformed modern digital services and critical infrastructures. The growing integration of cloud platforms, edge devices, IoT ecosystems, and communication networks provides substantial benefits in scalability, automation, and connectivity. However, this increasing interconnection also introduces complex cybersecurity and privacy challenges arising from heterogeneous devices, distributed architectures, large-scale data exchange, and continuously evolving cyber threats.

Recent research has introduced a wide range of security solutions for cloud, IoT, and communication networks. Nevertheless, these domains are often addressed independently, while emerging applications increasingly rely on their convergence. This creates a need for integrated security approaches capable of protecting interconnected cloud–edge–IoT environments and next-generation networked systems. Advances in artificial intelligence, zero-trust architectures, blockchain, privacy-preserving technologies, and post-quantum cryptography provide promising opportunities to strengthen security, trust, and resilience across these environments.

This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Cybersecurity for Cloud, IoT, and Networked Systems”, aims to bring together recent theoretical, methodological, and practical advances in securing modern interconnected systems. We welcome original research articles, review papers, and applied studies addressing cybersecurity, privacy, trust, resilience, and secure communications in cloud, IoT, edge, and networked environments. Particular emphasis is placed on innovative solutions that bridge traditionally separate research areas and address emerging security challenges in increasingly connected and intelligent systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, IoT and Industrial IoT security; cloud, edge, and fog computing security; network security and secure communications; intrusion and anomaly detection; artificial intelligence and machine learning for cybersecurity; 5G/6G security; zero-trust architectures; authentication and access control; blockchain-based security; post-quantum cryptography; federated learning and privacy-preserving systems; cyber–physical systems; critical infrastructure protection; and cyber risk management.

Dr. Abdullah Alabdulatif
Dr. Jamal Nasser A. Alotaibi
Guest Editors

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