Novel Cybersecurity Paradigms for Consumer Technology

Almost all the current generation consumer electronics (CE) and consumer technology (CT) have the feature of Internet connectivity. This connectivity comes with the major challenge of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity threats in for CE devices and systems have multiple forms including software, hardware, and communications networks. The cybersecurity attacks can come from remote locations through Internet. The cybersecurity threats can be local as built-in as trojans, which can be remotely exploited. In general, a variety of consumer devices are integrated in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and cyber–physical systems (CPS) making large smart components. For example, healthcare CPS making smart healthcare, agriculture CPS making smart agriculture, and transportation CPS making smart transportation, and energy CPS making smart energy. Similarly, at a smaller scale, smart homes and autonomous vehicles can have serious cybersecurity issues. With the previous thoughts, we invited perspective authors to contribute to the current special section that presents state-of-the-art of cybersecurity solutions for CE and CT. We briefly present the accepted papers in the following paragraphs.