Sustainability Challenges in Cyber Security for Smart Cities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2022) | Viewed by 277
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber security; artificial intelligence; combinatorial optimisation; IoT/smart cities
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: software engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustaining smart cities in the future would depend upon their capability to provide uninterrupted services to their citizens. The confluence of advancements in wireless technology, including the increasing deployment of 5G networks, artificial intelligence for extracting and classifying complex city data, and increasing affordability of commodity off-the-shelf IoT components, have enabled complex smart city ecosystems. On the other hand, adversarial strengths have also advanced manifold, owing to the ready availability of attacker tools, increasing digitisation leading to a substantial exposure of system and platform vulnerabilities, and the increasing involvement of nation-state actors in attempts to sabotage smart cities.
In this Special Issue, cutting-edge research addressing cyber security challenges for smart cities comprising static and mobile devices, small to large area communication networks, diverse IoT devices, machine-learning-based services, and the human element will be covered.
Topics may include:
- Cyber security strategy, policy, and planning
- Cyber resilience
- Evolving and emerging cyber threats
- IoT security
- Communication security
- Electric vehicle security
- Building area system security
- Privacy
Dr. Zubair Baig
Prof. Dr. Suma V
Dr. Naeem Syed
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart city security
- IoT
- security policy and strategy
- privacy
