MDPI Applied Sciences Journal
Special Issue "Cybersecurity: Advances in Security and Privacy Enhancing Technology"

* Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024
* Journal Impact Factor (2022): 2.7
* https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/8L086PN67H

Dear Colleagues,

Cybersecurity is the technology of protecting networks, systems, and data from cyberattacks. These cyberattacks aim to gain unauthorized access to networks, systems, and data and cause damage such as changing, destroying, or stealing sensitive data in the systems. Therefore, cybersecurity should provide various measures, methods, and solutions to protect users and systems from diverse threats and vulnerabilities. To minimize the risks of cybersecurity, we can consider many aspects. For instance, we can follow the security-by-design architecture, in which all products (e.g., software, hardware, and network) and services can be designed and implemented to ensure that the key security properties (i.e., confidentiality, availability, integrity, authentication, and accountability) and privacy issues are maintained properly in all phases of development and maintenance. This Special Issue (SI) aims to identify the security and privacy-enhancing technologies for cybersecurity. We invite submissions in theoretical and experimental studies, as well as comprehensive review and survey papers.

Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Advanced fine-grained authentication and dynamic access control for cybersecurity;
- Pseudonymization and encryption for cybersecurity;
- The automated, flexible, encrypted control of data access;
- Privacy-enhancing technology (PET) for cybersecurity;
- Privacy strategies for sensitive information;
- Security and privacy architecture for cybersecurity;
- Artificial intelligence for cybersecurity;
- Interoperability in cybersecurity.


* Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Young-Gab Kim, Department of Computer and Security, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea


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* Keywords
- cybersecurity
- interoperability
- metaverse
- privacy-enhancing technology (pet)
- security by design
- security architecture