Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT)

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing at a rapid pace and transforming daily lives. IoT connects physical devices such as mobile phones, smart watches, sensors, actuators, and thermostats, and enables these devices to collect and exchange data. Technology firms predict that the number of IoT devices will hit over dozens of billions in 2025. IoT poses security and privacy challenges with ubiquitous connectivity and ultimate functionality. The following presents security and privacy issues in IoT respectively. For IoT security, the threats are not only spread in the cyberspace, but also extend to the physical world. Both the cyberspace and the physical world need to be protected to improve the end-to-end security of IoT devices. Addressing IoT security has unique challenges due to (1) the heterogeneity among devices and service providers, and (2) the massive-scale, geographically distributed data in IoT applications. For privacy, IoT devices may collect sensitive information about users or organizations. With the enforcement of privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in the European Union (EU), privacy protection has received much attention. Recent techniques such as differential privacy and federated learning aim to protect privacy in various ways. How these techniques can be applied in the IoT context is of great research interest and practical significance.

This Special Issue focuses on the following topics but not limited to:

• Secure communication protocols for the IoT
• Threat modelling in the IoT
• Secure architectures for the IoT
• Trust models for the IoT
• Device attestation for the IoT
• Vulnerability analysis in the IoT
• Risk assessment in the IoT
• Intrusion detection for the IoT
• Forensics in the IoT
• Privacy enhancing techniques for the IoT
• Anonymization techniques the IoT
• Access control in the IoT
• Federated learning in the IoT

Dr. Jun Zhao
Dr. Feng Li
Dr. Zeeshan Kaleem
Dr. Quoc-Viet PHAM
Dr. Huimei Han
Dr. Helin Yang
Guest Editors

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