Big Data Security, Privacy and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

With rapid development of communication networks (e.g., 4G, 5G and, social network services) and smart devices (e.g., smartphones, smart sensors, smartwatches, and smart speakers), we have been feeling the rapid development of big data. Accordingly, security and privacy are the most concerned issues in big data. That is, due to the fact that our life have been influenced by big data service, the big data security has become indispensable requirement not only for personal privacy, but also for assuring the sustainability of the security. The security and privacy protection should be considered in all through the storage, transmission and processing of the big data.

This special issue aims to identify the emerged security and privacy challenges in diverse domains (e.g., finance, medical, and public organizations) for the big data. Moreover, it will provide the up-to-date state-of-the-art for the security, privacy and sustainability aspects of the big data.

Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:

• Security, privacy, and sustainability issues in emergent technologies for big data
• Security, privacy, and sustainability architecture for big data
• Security, privacy, and sustainability testing methods for big data
• Security, privacy, and sustainability management for big data
• Security, privacy challenges and mitigation methods for big data
• Security policy for big data
• Case studies experience reports on big data security, privacy, and sustainability

Prof. Young-Gab Kim
Guest Editor

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