Security and Privacy in Smart Environments

This volume gives readers an understanding of the multifaceted threats posed by the evolving cybersecurity landscape in smart environments, while also offering strategic insights into mitigative measures and proactive solutions.

The chapters in the first part explain the current state of smart environments, shedding light on their complexities and vulnerabilities. The second part provides a fresh perspective on existing technologies and cyber challenges within the context of the modern era, offering novel insights and analyses. The third part is dedicated to exploring the intricacies of critical infrastructures. The concluding section offers a succinct overview of distributed ledger and privacy enhancement approaches, underscoring their potential role in fortifying cybersecurity measures.

The contributors are among the leading researchers in the areas of smart environments, information security, and privacy, and the content will be of value to researchers in academia and industry, and security practitioners and policymakers.

Fresh perspective on existing technologies and cyber challenges in the modern context Succinct overview of distributed ledger and privacy enhancement approaches, and their role in cybersecurity Presents mitigative measures and proactive solutions

Inhalt

Current State of Smart Environments.- Methodological Resilience Assessment of Smart Cyber Infrastructures.- Query Integrity in Smart Environments.- Quantifying the Impact Propagation of Cyber Attacks using Business Logic Modeling.- Technologies And Challenges.- Enabling the Human-as-a-security-sensor paradigm in the Internet of Things.- Intrusion Detection at the IoT Edge using Federated Learning.- Bits and Bytes Betrayal: Unravelling the Dark Threads of Cybercrime in the Metaverse.- Intricacies Of Critical Infrastructures.- Smart Environments: Information Flow Control in Smart Grids.- Social Engineering: The Human Behavior Impact in Cyber Security Within Critical Information Infrastructures.- Distributed Ledger And Privacy Enhancement Approaches.- An overview of security issues for blockchain based distributed applications - A Critical View on Blockchain Rollups.- Decentralized Identity Management and the European Identity Reform.- Designing secure and privacy-aware IoT services in the health sector.