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With the settlement of smartphones and tablets in modern societies, as well as
the proliferation of an astronomic amount of other electronic devices such as
wearables, e-Health sensors, electrical appliances, or vehicles (amidst others),
all provided with Internet connection, all potentially dealing with sensitive
information, and most of them mobile in essence, we are witnessing today the
real advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). This new paradigm brings along many
indubitable advantages, but also a nonnegligible number of security threats that
should not go underestimated. Besides increasing in number, those threats are
becoming more sophisticated and harmful (as it is the case of advanced
persistent threats, or APTs), making it unfeasible for a human administrator to
manually protect each and every device within the constellation of gadgets,
artefacts, and computer systems of the IoT. Moreover, an alarming amount of the
new solutions envisaged for the IoT pay higher attention to usability aspects,
recklessly ignoring substantial security protection mechanisms, making the IoT
an ideal playground for malicious hacking activities. Hence, it is imperative to
find solutions aiming at the integral protection of the plethora of vulnerable
devices within the IoT. Working on those solutions will help the wider adoption
of these new technologies and help users to entrust them.

Thus, this Special Issue seeks high-quality original papers presenting
innovative solutions dealing with cybersecurity in the field of IoT. In
particular, novel techniques and mechanisms aimed at the security and privacy
protection of these environments are welcome. Likewise, we encourage review
articles describing and analyzing the current state of the art in this field.
Papers with a strong cryptographic background will not be considered as part of
this special issue.

Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance,
and contribution to the field of cybersecurity in the IoT, as well as their
suitability to the special issue, and for their overall quality. The submitted
papers have to describe original research which has not been published nor
currently under review by other journals or conferences. Guest editors will make
an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers
that either lack originality and clarity in presentation or fall outside the
scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and authors will be
promptly informed in such cases.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Malware analysis
Privacy-preserving solutions
Countermeasures solutions
Seamless security solutions
Threats and vulnerabilities
Botnets analysis
BYOD security
Identity management
Authorization and access control
Trust and reputation management
Machine learning-based solutions
Security Information event management

Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at
https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/scn/cit/.
Submission Deadline Friday, 27 October 2017
Publication Date March 2018

Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue
publication date.

Lead Guest Editor

Félix G. Mármol, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Guest Editors

Patricia A. Cabarcos, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia