Emerging technologies, such as internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, edge computing, software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), have already shown their potential to heavily impact modern life. However, the widespread adoption of those technologies is still being hindered by various serious security and privacy concerns. Moreover, the cyber forensics is another critical concern with the adoption of those modern technologies.

However, due to the unique nature of these technologies and non-trivial challenges in offering security and forensics solutions for them, there exist several open research problems that are critical in ensuring a safer adoption to the modern era to provide better security guarantee and ensure proper forensics procedure.

This special issue on cyber forensics for emerging technologies aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to publish novel solutions to ensure better protection in emerging technologies. This section invites submissions on new attacks and solutions on emerging technologies (e.g., IoT, cloud/edge computing, and SDN/NFV) that shed light on various security and forensics problems and provide their effective solutions.

The topics of interests related to cyber forensics for emerging technologies include, but are not limited to:

Forensics in Cloud Computing
Virtual Network Security
Data Protection in Clouds
Trusted Computing in Clouds
Cloud Security Auditing
Risk Analysis for Clouds
SDN Security/Forensics
NFV Security/Forensics
Security and Privacy of Federated Clouds and Edge Computing
Security and Privacy of Fog Computing
Forensics and visualization of Big Data
Forensics in IoT
Data Protection in IoT
Malware Analysis and Attribution
Digital Evidence Extraction/query using Machine Learning and Data Mining
Social Networking Analysis
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
Non-Traditional Forensic Applications
Distributed System Forensics
Healthcare/ E-health security and forensics

Submission Guidelines
Submit manuscript to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oj-coms
For information regarding IEEE OJ-COMS including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-ojcoms.

Lead Guest Editor
Suryadipta Majumdar, University at Albany – SUNY, USA

Guest Editors
Prabir Bhattacharya, Concordia University, Canada
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph, Canada
Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Krishnashree Achuthan, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
Daniel Bastos, British Telecom, UK

For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, please contact the Lead Guest Editor.