Dear Colleagues,

Sensors, both software and hardware, are becoming an indispensable part of modern infrastructures. They are highly interconnected and seamlessly integrated into diverse platforms, coming closer to what we call IoT, realizing Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Computing. According to their sensing capabilities and application context, each sensor or sensing infrastructure requires specific design and features resulting in the evolution of fog and edge computing. However, the inspiring opportunities offered by fostering fully controlled ubiquitous contexts do not come without a cost.

Sensing technologies are known to face challenges related to data management, performance, energy consumption, and communication, among others. Those challenges are often exploited, along with other context-specific ones, with malicious intents to, e.g., exfiltrate sensitive information, and perform cyber-physical attacks. Sensing technologies are prone to cyberattacks, which may have a different impact according to the technology used and their underlying platform, and may require divergent protection and prevention mechanisms. The latter problem requires an interdisciplinary approach due to the existing heterogeneous components, technologies, and implementations.

In this Special Issue of Sensors, we invite submissions focusing on Cybersecurity for Sensor Technologies. We welcome submissions that offer relevant advancements towards sensing technologies and their protection, along with the prevention and detection of cyber threats. We expect contributions to automated data analytics and intelligent systems to secure sensing technologies, particularly based on intelligent and automated solutions, as well as disruptive technologies such as blockchain and federated platforms. Of particular interest are papers focusing on the particular challenges of context-aware environments (e.g., Industry 4.0, smart cities, healthcare, vehicular networks and drones), where sensing technologies are becoming prevalent.

Potential topics may include:

• Intrusion detection and prevention.
• Biometrics security, including access control and authentication technologies.
• Attack methods, including adversarial machine learning.
• Intelligent trust management, security and privacy protocols for sensing technologies.
• Data analytics and automated policy enforcement for securing sensing technologies.
• Monitoring and securing resources in sensing technologies.
• Forensic analysis and readiness of sensors, both hardware and software.
• Collaborative and cognitive frameworks to secure heterogeneous sensing technologies.
• Securing context-aware environments and applications (e.g., smart cities including civil infrastructures, healthcare-related contexts, Industry 4.0 and IoT, vehicular sensor networks and drones).
• Secure and/or privacy-preserving aggregation.
• Use of Trusted Execution Environments for securing sensors.
• Secure fog and edge computing.

Dr. Fran Casino
Dr. Constantinos Patsakis
Dr. Agusti Solanas
Guest Editors

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• intrusion detection
• biometrics security
• privacy protocols
• automated data analytics
• disruptive technologies
• secure fog/edge computing