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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,203 Views
26 Pages

14 January 2025

The rapid advancement of technology and increasing data utilisation have underscored the need for new models to manage and secure big data effectively. However, the constraints of isolated network environments and the limitations of existing security...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Cybersecurity Applications: Solutions to Counteract Cyber Threats)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,057 Views
21 Pages

Zero-trust security architecture reconstructs the trust foundation of access control based on authentication and authorization by continuously authenticating the terminal during the authentication process and not relying solely on geographic location...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in Computing and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,982 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2022

Security assurance (SA) is a technique that helps organizations to appraise the trust and confidence that a system can be operated correctly and securely. To foster effective SA, there must be systematic techniques to reflect the fact that the system...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,679 Views
7 Pages

As universities seek to adopt increased e-business, e-commerce and e-learning initiates, the overall approach taken for security management within the organisation plays an increasingly relevant role. In many cases security in universities is approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,008 Views
23 Pages

8 April 2021

Non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proofs for chosen-ciphertext security are generally considered to give an impractical construction. An interesting recent work by Seo, Abdalla, Lee, and Park (Information Sciences, July 2019) proposed an efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,945 Views
33 Pages

On the Need for a General REST-Security Framework

  • Luigi Lo Iacono,
  • Hoai Viet Nguyen and
  • Peter Leo Gorski

27 February 2019

Contemporary software is inherently distributed. The principles guiding the design of such software have been mainly manifested by the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept. In a SOA, applications are orchestrated by software services generally...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary Feature Papers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,769 Views
53 Pages

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools in cyber security, enabling automation, threat detection, and adaptive learning. Their ability to process unstructured data and generate context-aware outputs supports both operational tasks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,382 Views
16 Pages

27 March 2023

Online security threats have arisen through Internet banking hacking cases, and highly sensitive user information such as the ID, password, account number, and account password that is used for online payments has become vulnerable. Many security com...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
9,109 Views
29 Pages

The Place of Energy Security in the National Security Framework: An Assessment Approach

  • Daniel Mara,
  • Silviu Nate,
  • Andriy Stavytskyy and
  • Ganna Kharlamova

17 January 2022

The term “energy security” is used almost everywhere in economic and political discussions related to energy supply. However, different authors use different meanings to express the concept of energy security. Quite often, this term is us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Policy and Economic Analysis of Sustainable Energy Transition and Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,395 Views
15 Pages

Smart Security in the Smart City

  • Natalia Moch and
  • Wioletta Wereda

26 November 2020

This article is focused on whether and to what extent the measures taken by cities’ shape their creative and intelligent space safety. For this purpose, research was carried out among medium and large cities in Poland. The analysis of the obtai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue City Branding and Sustainable Destination Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Views
15 Pages

10 November 2026

The growing integration of cyber, physical, and operational security functions has created a need for assessment approaches that evaluate security convergence as an organisational capability rather than as a set of isolated controls. This article pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance Testing, Evaluation and Innovation in Physical Protection Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,081 Views
16 Pages

In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments, vehicles and roadside units (RSUs) communicate predominantly through public channels. These vehicles and RSUs exchange various data, such as traffic density, location, speed, etc. Therefore, secure and...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
143 Citations
23,966 Views
26 Pages

Biometrics for Internet-of-Things Security: A Review

  • Wencheng Yang,
  • Song Wang,
  • Nor Masri Sahri,
  • Nickson M. Karie and ,
  • Mohiuddin Ahmed and
  • Craig Valli
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 September 2021

The large number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that need interaction between smart devices and consumers makes security critical to an IoT environment. Biometrics offers an interesting window of opportunity to improve the usability and security...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,120 Views
35 Pages

15 December 2021

The need for continuous monitoring of physiological information of critical organs of the human body, combined with the ever-growing field of electronics and sensor technologies and the vast opportunities brought by 5G connectivity, have made implant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from WISA 2020)
  • Review
  • Open Access
65 Citations
47,337 Views
24 Pages

A Review on Electronic Payments Security

  • Md Arif Hassan,
  • Zarina Shukur,
  • Mohammad Kamrul Hasan and
  • Ahmed Salih Al-Khaleefa

12 August 2020

Modern technology is turning into an essential element in the financial trade. We focus the emphasis of this review on the research on the E-wallet and online payment, which is an element of an electric payment system, to get the pattern of using thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,257 Views
17 Pages

3 January 2025

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has worsened the challenge of maintaining data and user privacy. IoT end devices, often deployed in unsupervised environments and connected to open networks, are susceptible to physical tampering and...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,306 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2020

Event-based system (EBS) is prevalent in various systems including mobile cyber physical systems (MCPSs), Internet of Things (IoT) applications, mobile applications, and web applications, because of its particular communication model that uses implic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trustworthiness in Mobile Cyber Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,761 Views
62 Pages

For many individuals and organizations, cyber-insurance is the most practical and only way of handling a major financial impact of an information security event. However, the cyber-insurance market suffers from the problem of information asymmetry, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,612 Views
33 Pages

4 October 2025

Cross-border Fifth Generation Mobile Communication (5G) roaming requires secure N32 connections between network operators via Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP) interfaces, but current Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 implementations face a crit...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,562 Views
33 Pages

Information Security Methods—Modern Research Directions

  • Alexander Shelupanov,
  • Oleg Evsyutin,
  • Anton Konev,
  • Evgeniy Kostyuchenko and ,
  • Dmitry Kruchinin and
  • Dmitry Nikiforov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 January 2019

In Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) one of the main areas of research is information security. The work is carried out by a scientific group under the guidance of Professor Shelupanov. One of the directions is the deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry: Anniversary Feature Papers 2018)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
41 Citations
15,062 Views
16 Pages

Information Security Risk Assessment

  • Ievgeniia Kuzminykh,
  • Bogdan Ghita,
  • Volodymyr Sokolov and
  • Taimur Bakhshi

Information security risk assessment is an important part of enterprises’ management practices that helps to identify, quantify, and prioritize risks against criteria for risk acceptance and objectives relevant to the organization. Risk management re...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics & Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,871 Views
12 Pages

Password Security as a Game of Entropies

  • Stefan Rass and
  • Sandra König

25 April 2018

We consider a formal model of password security, in which two actors engage in a competition of optimal password choice against potential attacks. The proposed model is a multi-objective two-person game. Player 1 seeks an optimal password choice poli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Game Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,861 Views
13 Pages

Security Awareness of the Digital Natives

  • Vasileios Gkioulos,
  • Gaute Wangen,
  • Sokratis K. Katsikas,
  • George Kavallieratos and
  • Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou

Young generations make extensive use of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, while a plethora of security risks associated with such devices are induced by vulnerabilities related to user behavior. Furthermore, the number of secu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Systems, Mobile Networks and Mobile Cloud: Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,773 Views
22 Pages

18 December 2024

In the 4th industrial era, the proliferation of interconnected smart devices and advancements in AI, particularly big data and machine learning, have integrated various industrial domains into cyberspace. This convergence brings novel security threat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of AI, Big Data, and ICT into Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,139 Views
26 Pages

Towards Optimized Security Attributes for IoT Devices in Smart Agriculture Based on the IEC 62443 Security Standard

  • Abdelkader Magdy Shaaban,
  • Sebastian Chlup,
  • Nahla El-Araby and
  • Christoph Schmittner

2 June 2022

Implementing applicable security measures into system engineering applications is still one of the most challenging processes in building secure infrastructure. This process needs to consider a variety of security attributes to support securing syste...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,363 Views
27 Pages

Software security is an ongoing problem, largely due to a lack of security knowledge among software developers from diverse backgrounds. To counter this, security experts are attempting to offer a broad range of knowledge resources to enlighten devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,208 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2023

Traditionally, website security risks are measured using static analysis based on patterns and dynamic analysis by accessing websites with user devices. Recently, similarity hash-based website security risk analysis and machine learning-based website...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,113 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2024

When migrating smart contracts from one blockchain platform to another, there are potential security risks. This is because different blockchain platforms have different environments and characteristics for executing smart contracts. The focus of thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
14,025 Views
24 Pages

26 April 2016

The most effective approach to evaluating the security of complex systems is to deliberately construct the systems using security patterns specifically designed to make them evaluable. Just such an integrated set of security patterns was created deca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluating the Security of Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,844 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2020

As the world enters a fourth Industrial Revolution, organizations worldwide face challenges in dealing with important assets such as industrial technology. Leaking these assets can not only damage organizations economically but also negatively affect...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advanced IT based Future Sustainable Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
12,633 Views
22 Pages

5G Security Threat Assessment in Real Networks

  • Seongmin Park,
  • Daeun Kim,
  • Youngkwon Park,
  • Hyungjin Cho and ,
  • Dowon Kim and
  • Sungmoon Kwon
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 August 2021

Advances in mobile communication networks from 2G to 5G have brought unprecedented traffic growth, and 5G mobile communication networks are expected to be used in a variety of industries based on innovative technologies, fast not only in terms of ext...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,350 Views
15 Pages

Post-Quantum Security of COPA

  • Ping Zhang and
  • Yutao Wang

23 August 2025

COPA is a notable authenticated online cipher and was one of the winning proposals for the CAESAR competition. Current works describe how to break the existentially unforgeable under quantum chosen message attack (EUF-qCMA) of COPA. However, these wo...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Review
  • Open Access
682 Views
38 Pages

Research on Memristors in Hardware Security

  • Zihan Zhong,
  • Chenqi Dai,
  • Guangfu Luo,
  • Yaoyao Jin and ,
  • Xuenan Peng,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Shuai Zhang and
  • Cong Ye
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2026

As the deep integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has rendered traditional encryption techniques increasingly inadequate in terms of security strength, the implementation of hardware-level security...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neuromorphic Memory and Computing-in-Memory Architectures: From Devices to Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,454 Views
24 Pages

APSec1.0: Innovative Security Protocol Design with Formal Security Analysis for the Artificial Pancreas System

  • Jiyoon Kim,
  • Jongmin Oh,
  • Daehyeon Son,
  • Hoseok Kwon and ,
  • Philip Virgil Astillo and
  • Ilsun You
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 June 2023

The Medical Internet-of-Things (MIoT) has developed revolutionary ways of delivering medical care to patients. An example system, showing increasing demand, is the artificial pancreas system that offers convenience and reliable support care to patien...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,910 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2020

This research establishes a security evaluation model from the insider leakage perspective and suggests an objective evaluation measurement. Organizational security risks are fused and compounded both inside and outside the organization. Although mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,233 Views
16 Pages

User Modelling Validation over the Security Awareness of Digital Natives

  • Vasileios Gkioulos,
  • Gaute Wangen and
  • Sokratis K. Katsikas

Young generations make extensive use of mobile devices, such as smart-phones, tablets and laptops, for a variety of daily tasks with potentially critical impact, while the number of security breaches via portable devices increases exponentially. A pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,251 Views
25 Pages

15 December 2021

This study proposes a security-quality-metrics method tailored for the Internet of things (IoT) and evaluates conformity of the proposed approach with pertinent cybersecurity regulations and guidelines for IoT. Cybersecurity incidents involving IoT d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,743 Views
16 Pages

Openness and Security Thinking Characteristics for IoT Ecosystems

  • Bahtijar Vogel,
  • Miranda Kajtazi,
  • Joseph Bugeja and
  • Rimpu Varshney

2 December 2020

While security is often recognized as a top priority for organizations and a push for competitive advantage, repeatedly, Internet of Things (IoT) products have become a target of diverse security attacks. Thus, orchestrating smart services and device...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,573 Views
13 Pages

SAWIT—Security Awareness Improvement Tool in the Workplace

  • Ana Kovačević and
  • Sonja D. Radenković

28 April 2020

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and severe, and an organization’s protection depends on its weakest member. Although users are aware of the risks in cyberspace, most of them do not follow best practices, and there is a need...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,173 Views
29 Pages

Research on the Security of SRAM-Based FPGAs in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

  • Jing Zhou,
  • Xiangyu Zhao,
  • Shengbing Zhang,
  • Lei Chen and ,
  • Ke Xiao and
  • Shuo Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

SRAM-based FPGAs, with their flexible programmability and parallel execution features, have been widely used, and the security of such devices has drawn significant attention. Especially in the era of artificial intelligence, FPGA architectural optim...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Integrated Circuit Design and Application)
  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
11,872 Views
48 Pages

A Comprehensive Survey on Security and Privacy for Electronic Health Data

  • Se-Ra Oh,
  • Young-Duk Seo,
  • Euijong Lee and
  • Young-Gab Kim

Recently, the integration of state-of-the-art technologies, such as modern sensors, networks, and cloud computing, has revolutionized the conventional healthcare system. However, security concerns have increasingly been emerging due to the integratio...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Communication and Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Views
24 Pages

27 August 2026

As fifth-generation (5G) networks evolve toward open and software-based architectures, security verification of the NG Application Protocol (NGAP) between the radio access network and the 5G core has become increasingly important. This paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Next-Generation Mobile Networks: Challenges, Solutions, and Innovations)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,683 Views
17 Pages

4 February 2020

With the development of the fourth industrial technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, developed countries including the U.S. are investigating the efficiency of national defense, the public sector and national innovation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,975 Views
22 Pages

12 July 2022

Recent reports indicate that over 85% of data breaches are still caused by a human element, of which healthcare is one of the organizations that cyber criminals target. As healthcare IT infrastructure is characterized by a human element, this study c...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,616 Views
18 Pages

An Exploratory Study Gathering Security Requirements for the Software Development Process

  • Roberto Andrade,
  • Jenny Torres,
  • Iván Ortiz-Garcés,
  • Jorge Miño and
  • Luis Almeida

25 August 2023

Software development stands out as one of the most rapidly expanding markets due to its pivotal role in crafting applications across diverse sectors like healthcare, transportation, and finance. Nevertheless, the sphere of cybersecurity has also unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Software Analysis, Quality, and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,367 Views
26 Pages

Hardware systems are foundational to critical infrastructure, embedded devices, and consumer products, making robust security assurance essential. However, existing hardware security standards remain fragmented, inconsistent in scope, and difficult t...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,281 Views
15 Pages

As COVID-19 became a pandemic worldwide, contact tracing technologies and information systems were developed for quick control of infectious diseases in both the private and public sectors. This study aims to strengthen the data subject’s secur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Cybersecurity Threats and Increasing Organizational Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
12,250 Views
19 Pages

A Layered Trust Information Security Architecture

  • Robson De Oliveira Albuquerque,
  • Luis Javier García Villalba,
  • Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco,
  • Fábio Buiati and
  • Tai-Hoon Kim

1 December 2014

Information can be considered the most important asset of any modern organization. Securing this information involves preserving confidentially, integrity and availability, the well-known CIA triad. In addition, information security is a risk managem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Computing for Mobile Security and Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,401 Views
11 Pages

Revisiting a Proof of Security for the SM2 Key Exchange Protocol

  • Qianying Zhang,
  • Yuting Wang and
  • Shijun Zhao

28 January 2026

The SM2 key exchange protocol, proposed by the Chinese State Cryptography Administration and adopted as a national standard, is extensively deployed in commercial applications across China. It has also been incorporated by global industrial organizat...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
801 Views
9 Pages

12 November 2025

Consumers and businesses are often connected online in today’s digitally connected world. Fast and barrier-free communication, easier and faster operation, and automation and networking of robots and production offer many competitive advantages...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2025)

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