This book brings together research that integrates deep learning-drive explainable generative artificial intelligence analytics modeling for security and reliability of cloud-IoT Environments. Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a network of physical objects, including vehicles, appliances, and various devices embedded with sensors, software, and connectivity features for data collection and sharing. This interconnectedness facilitates the seamless transfer of information, leading to enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and convenience across numerous aspects of daily life and industrial operations. IoT technology finds wide-ranging applications in sectors such as smart homes, healthcare, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing, fundamentally transforming our interactions with technology and the environment.

However, the widespread adoption of IoT devices has introduced significant security and privacy challenges. IoT security involves implementing procedures and protocols to safeguard devices, networks, and data from potential cyber threats, unauthorized access, and data breaches. Ensuring adequate security measures poses unique challenges due to the diverse nature of IoT devices and their inherent limitations in computing and storage capabilities. Common security issues in IoT include device vulnerabilities, insufficient authentication mechanisms, lack of encryption, and susceptibility to data breaches. Consequently, effective IoT security solutions integrate encryption protocols, secure authentication methods, regular software updates, and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to identify and mitigate potential threats. Given the rapid proliferation of IoT applications, ongoing development and deployment of comprehensive security protocols are essential to uphold the integrity and safety of IoT ecosystems.

With the evolving landscape of cyber threats, traditional security approaches such as user authentication, firewalls, and data encryption, often considered the primary line of defense, must evolve to address the unique challenges posed by IoT.

Azidine Guezzaz is currently an associate professor of computer science and mathematics at Technology Higher School Essaouira at Cadi Ayyad Marrakech University Morocco. He is a member in Laboratory Mathematics, Computer Science, and Modeling of Complex Systems (MIMSC). He received his Ph.D. from IbnZohr University Agadir, Morocco, in 2018. His research interest is computer security, cryptography, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, and smart cities. He is also a reviewer of various scientific journals. Cyber security, big data analytics, Network Security Computer, Networking, Network Architecture, Cryptography, Routing, Intrusion Detection Intrusion Prevention, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Warehouse, Advanced Machine Learning, Business Intelligence.

Vinayakumar Ravi is an assistant research professor at Center for Artificial Intelligence, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Khobar, Saudi Arabia. His previous position was a postdoctoral research fellow in developing and implementing novel computational and machine learning algorithms and applications for big data integration and data mining with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. His current research interests include applications of data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning (including deep learning) for biomedical informatics, cyber security, image processing, and natural language processing. He has more than 100 research publications in reputed IEEE conferences, IEEE Transactions and Journals. His publications include prestigious conferences in the area of cyber security, like IEEE S&P and IEEE Infocom. Dr. Ravi has received a full scholarship to attend Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) 2019, London. 

Hoang Pham (fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, in 1989. He is currently a distinguished professor and the former chairman of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. He was a senior engineering specialist with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls, and a senior specialist engineer with Boeing, Seattle, WA, USA.  He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2009 IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award. He is a fellow of the IISE.