Privacy and Cybersecurity in IoT-Based Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 720
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Dear Colleagues,
User privacy and data protection are important challenges that need to be addressed in Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor applications. As IoT technologies become more closely integrated into everyday systems, lifestyles, and businesses, they generate a greater need for cybersecurity. Cybersecurity encompasses all the technology and operations needed to safeguard sensor devices and their respective platforms and networks from cyber-attacks. Privacy and cybersecurity are important considerations for IoT applications because IoT-based sensor devices can collect and store sensitive data. IoT technologies are rapidly gaining popularity in industrial and commercial environments and in personal life, with people utilizing smart sensor devices at home. The IoT spawns new businesses and makes buildings, cities, and transport smarter. It allows for ubiquitous data collection or tracking, but these useful features are also examples of privacy threats that are already limiting the success of the IoT vision when not implemented correctly. Privacy should be protected in the device, storage, communication, and processing. The use of the IoT in monitoring patient healthcare using sensors and devices comes with tremendous security concerns. Recent sophisticated attacks like data integrity, data breaching, and data collusion are major safety and confidentiality concerns related to IoT-based applications such as healthcare monitoring systems. In this Special Issue, we invite contributions to the latest advances in IoT technology, the developments of related algorithms, schemes, and architectures, and the various privacy and cybersecurity application issues.
The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Privacy and cybersecurity issues in IoT healthcare applications;
- Data security and privacy in the IoT world;
- Survey of cybersecurity and privacy issues of the Internet of Things;
- Tagging data efficiently for managing privacy in the Internet of Things;
- IoT privacy and cybersecurity in a connected world;
- Privacy information security classification for IoT-based Data;
- Cybersecurity, privacy, and trust for smart mobile devices in the Internet of Things;
- Privacy, cybersecurity, and IoT-based wireless sensor networks;
- Privacy and cybersecurity issues in IoT-based smart homes;
- Ubiquitous data accessing method in IoT-based information systems for emergency medical services;
- Privacy, cybersecurity, and Internet of Things in industries;
- Privacy, cybersecurity, and Internet of Things for smart city applications.
Prof. Dr. Cajetan M. Akujuobi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- privacy
- cybersecurity
- Internet of Things
- privacy information security
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