Cybersecurity for IoT Sensors, Devices, and Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly built around sensing, incorporating embedded and wearable sensors, industrial sensor networks, and edge nodes that capture, process, and transmit physical-world measurements. This connectivity enables new services and automation, but it also expands the attack surface and introduces safety, integrity, availability, and privacy risks. Attacks may target insecure onboarding, weak authentication, firmware flaws, unprotected wireless links, physical tampering, and cloud/edge APIs, enabling data manipulation, service disruption, and leakage of sensitive sensor data.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions that focus on strengthening the cybersecurity of IoT sensors and sensing systems across the full lifecycle of equipment, from secure design to operation and end of life. Topics of interest include secure architectures for constrained devices; device identity, authentication, and access control; lightweight and post-quantum-aware cryptography and key management; secure boot, attestation, and trusted execution; secure over-the-air updates and vulnerability management; hardware security and anti-tamper methods; intrusion and anomaly detection (including ML-based approaches); privacy-preserving sensing and federated learning; and trustworthy data sharing and provenance (e.g., through distributed ledgers). Submissions spanning the industrial IoT, smart homes/buildings, healthcare and wearable sensors, smart mobility, and environmental monitoring are welcome. We particularly encourage work involving reproducible evaluations, real-world datasets, and practical deployment.

Dr. Aviv Itzhak
Guest Editor

Dr. Eran Dahan
Guest Editor Assistant

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