Special Issue "Big Data Security, Privacy and Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Young-Gab Kim
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Guest Editor
Department of Computer and Security, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
Interests: big data security; IoT security; security engineering; interoperability in security and data exchange
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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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Keywords

  • big data
  • big data security
  • big data privacy
  • sustainability of the big data security
  • emerging security and privacy challenges

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Data Usage and Access Control in Industrial Data Spaces: Implementation Using FIWARE
Sustainability 2020, 12(9), 3885; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093885 - 09 May 2020
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In recent years, a new business paradigm has emerged which revolves around effectively extracting value from data. In this scope, providing a secure ecosystem for data sharing that ensures data governance and traceability is of paramount importance as it holds the potential to [...] Read more.
In recent years, a new business paradigm has emerged which revolves around effectively extracting value from data. In this scope, providing a secure ecosystem for data sharing that ensures data governance and traceability is of paramount importance as it holds the potential to create new applications and services. Protecting data goes beyond restricting who can access what resource (covered by identity and Access Control): it becomes necessary to control how data are treated once accessed, which is known as data Usage Control. Data Usage Control provides a common and trustful security framework to guarantee the compliance with data governance rules and responsible use of organizations’ data by third-party entities, easing and ensuring secure data sharing in ecosystems such as Smart Cities and Industry 4.0. In this article, we present an implementation of a previously published architecture for enabling access and Usage Control in data-sharing ecosystems among multiple organizations using the FIWARE European open source platform. Additionally, we validate this implementation through a real use case in the food industry. We conclude that the proposed model, implemented using FIWARE components, provides a flexible and powerful architecture to manage Usage Control in data-sharing ecosystems. Full article
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Security and Privacy in Big Data Life Cycle: A Survey and Open Challenges
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10571; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410571 - 17 Dec 2020
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The use of big data in various fields has led to a rapid increase in a wide variety of data resources, and various data analysis technologies such as standardized data mining and statistical analysis techniques are accelerating the continuous expansion of the big [...] Read more.
The use of big data in various fields has led to a rapid increase in a wide variety of data resources, and various data analysis technologies such as standardized data mining and statistical analysis techniques are accelerating the continuous expansion of the big data market. An important characteristic of big data is that data from various sources have life cycles from collection to destruction, and new information can be derived through analysis, combination, and utilization. However, each phase of the life cycle presents data security and reliability issues, making the protection of personally identifiable information a critical objective. In particular, user tendencies can be analyzed using various big data analytics, and this information leads to the invasion of personal privacy. Therefore, this paper identifies threats and security issues that occur in the life cycle of big data by confirming the current standards developed by international standardization organizations and analyzing related studies. In addition, we divide a big data life cycle into five phases (i.e., collection, storage, analytics, utilization, and destruction), and define the security taxonomy of the big data life cycle based on the identified threats and security issues. Full article
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