Security and Communication Networks journal, Special Issue on Cybersecurity
in the Internet of Things
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/932024/cfp/, 
* (Submission Due 27 October 2017) *
Guest Editors: Félix G. Mármol (University of Murcia,
Murcia, Spain), Patricia A. Cabarcos (Universität Mannheim, Mannheim,
Germany), Vijay Varadharajan (University of Newcastle, Newcastle,
Australia).

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

For more information, please see:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/932024/cfp/