Editorial: Security and Privacy in Internet of Things

In our daily life, we interact with a large number of variety of technological devices for difference purposes, such as accessing documents stored in the cloud, viewing photos and videos, and remotely controlling devices in a smart home. Many of these devices are also Internet-connected, and hence they are also commonly referred to as Internet of Things (IoT). There is a broad range of use cases for IoT, ranging from the healthcare sector (e.g. remote monitoring and collection of body and health-related information) to a smart city environment (e.g. vehicular ad hoc networks – VANETs, to facilitate safety-related, traffic management or infotainment services) to a more adversarial environment (e.g. battlefields) There are, however, a number of challenges to be addressed in any IoT deployment, and two of these key challenges are security and privacy, particularly as the data from IoT devices are being sent and shared via some