Security Applications of Machine Learning

Dear Colleagues, 

Machine Learning techniques are increasingly used in the field of Security. They are applied to solve quite different problems, ranging from Malware Detection to Biometric Authentication, from Code Analysis to Network Traffic analysis, and in many privacy-related scenarios. 

Furthermore, the support of Machine Learning algorithms is becoming essential as security problems face an increasing complexity in terms of the amount of data that needs to be analyzed and of the number and diversity of the attacks and vulnerabilities that need to be detected. 

The open access journal Algorithms will host a Special Issue on ``Security Applications of Machine Learning''. The aim of the Special Issue is to offer a forum for exchanging and proposing new ideas and techniques related with the design and usage of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms in Security. 

The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics of interest:    

• machine learning to advance cyber security analytics   
• deep learning applied to security and privacy   
• machine learning for malware analysis and classification   
• machine learning for anomaly detection   
• biometric authentication   
• machine learning for discovering vulnerabilities and attacks   
• machine learning used for large scale security analysis   
• privacy-preserving machine learning   
• privacy-preserving classifier learning   
• machine Learning on Encrypted Data   
• learning in presence of a Security adversary   

Prof. Dr. Francesco Bergadano
Prof. Dr. Bruno Crispo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• anomaly detection 
• malware detection 
• biometric authentication 
• security analytics
• adversarial learning