Dear Colleagues,

Currently, the Internet of things (IoT) enables billions of Internet-connected devices, e.g., smart sensors, to communicate and interact with each other over the network/internet worldwide. It can offer remote monitoring and control, and is being adopted in many domains. For example, it is the basis for smart cities, helping achieve better quality of life and lower consumption of resources. In addition, smartphones should be the most commonly used IoT devices, which can help control washing machines, refrigerators, or cars. However, IoT also faces many challenges concerning information and internet security. For example, attackers can impersonate a relay node to compromise the information integrity during the communications. When they control or infect several internal nodes in an IoT network, the security of the whole distributed environment would be greatly threatened. Hence, there is a need to safeguard information and the Internet environment against the plethora of modern external and internal threats.

This Special Issue will focus on information and Internet security with the attempt to solicit the latest technologies, solutions, case studies, and prototypes on this topic. This Special Issue is open to all submissions, while some outstanding papers from the 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 August 2020, https://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/) will be invited to this Special Issue.

Topics of interest include, but are limited to, the following:

Access control
Social networks security, privacy, and trust
Key management and key recovery
Software-defined networking security
Anonymity
Embedded systems security
Language-based security
Security management
Applied cryptography
Security models, metrics, and policies
Malware and anti-malware
Fraud and cyber-crime
Authentication and authorization
Security and privacy of Big Data
Mobile computing security and privacy
Hardware security
Biometrics security
Security of critical infrastructures
Network security
Trusted and trustworthy computing technologies
Blockchain security and privacy
Trust and reputation systems
Operating systems security
Usable security and privacy
Computer and digital forensics
Insider threat detection
Cyber-physical systems security
Underground economy
Privacy protection
Intellectual property protection
Data and system integrity
Verification of security protocols
Privacy-preserving data mining
Intrusion detection
Database security
Web security
Risk assessment
IoT security and privacy
Distributed systems security
Wireless security
Identity access management
Cloud and edge computing security
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The deadline is 31 December 2020.
The link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/ICICS2020