IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Security and Privacy in Applications and Services for Future Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as an important field of future network research that focuses on ubiquitous service patterns and universal access for people, devices, processes, etc. Motivated by great market demand and potential profit, future innovations for the application and accommodation for IoT will soon be realized and deployed expeditiously. However, those innovations will inevitably expose IoTs to security and privacy risks. Our society has witnessed tremendous concerns about these issues. Therefore, examining IoT applications and services closely for security and privacy vulnerabilities is of the utmost importance and can be further realized in three dimensions, namely, network architectural principles, application design, and high quality of service. From small atomic elements of the network to entire service packages, fine-grained verification should be performed to reduce security and privacy risks of an individual or the entire network.