Guest Editorial Special Issue on Security and Privacy Protection for Big Data and IoT

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks, mobile social networks, crowdsensing applications, and beyond, huge amounts of data are being explosively generated every day. While big data and IoT bring well-understood benefits to increase knowledge and improve the quality of our daily lives, they also face wide attacking surfaces, and thus raise critical concerns on notions of trust, security, and privacy. One of the fundamental questions is how to collect, store, and process the huge amounts of data in a secure and privacy-preserving manner, without compromising the potential of capitalization on big data and IoT.