Recent Advances in Security, Privacy, and Trust for Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

Security, Privacy, and Trust in a Connected World

The Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems have moved from research labs into hospitals, factories, power grids, and everyday homes. That shift brings enormous benefits, and a much wider attack surface. This edited volume, first published by CRC Press in 2021, examines the security, privacy, and trust challenges that arise when software, hardware, networks, and people are tightly coupled.

Across eleven contributed chapters, the book brings together perspectives from cloud computing, healthcare, industrial systems, network monitoring, and machine learning. It is a technical collection aimed at readers who want to understand both the principles and the practical defense strategies shaping modern IoT and CPS security.

What the Book Explores 🔐

The contents move from foundational integration topics to specialized detection and protection techniques. Chapters consider:

• Cloud computing and Internet of Things integration
• Healthcare cyber-physical systems: architecture, security issues, intrusion detection, and defenses
• Privacy and trust in healthcare IoT, including concepts, challenges, and threat mitigation
• Ransomware detection and mitigation in medical cyber-physical systems
• Security challenges and requirements for industrial IoT
• Network intrusion detection with XGBoost
• Anomaly detection on encrypted and high-performance data networks using machine learning
• Deep learning for network intrusion detection
• End-user protection against IoT intrusions
• Low-power physical layer security solutions for IoT devices
• Harmful and violent content filtering for social networks with Apache Spark

From Concepts to Defensive Practice

Rather than treating security as a single layer, the book follows the problem across devices, networks, cloud platforms, and applications. That structure helps readers see how an attack path can cross system boundaries, and why privacy and trust need to be designed alongside technical controls. The chapters include algorithms, architectural discussion, and application examples, making the material useful for both study and applied work.

Who This Volume Is For

Researchers, graduate students, security professionals, network engineers, and healthcare IT specialists will find relevant material here. The book assumes a technical interest in cybersecurity, IoT, and cyber-physical systems, but it does not require a single narrow specialization. Readers can follow the chapters sequentially or focus on the topics most relevant to their work.

Why It Remains Relevant

IoT and CPS security continue to evolve, yet the core questions raised in this volume remain central: how to detect intrusions in complex environments, how to protect privacy without blocking useful data flows, how to secure resource-constrained devices, and how to build trust into systems that people depend on every day. This 2021 collection offers a focused snapshot of research directions and defensive approaches that continue to shape the field.