Cyber Security Threats and Challenges Facing Human Life provides a comprehensive view of the issues, threats, and challenges that are faced in the cyber security domain. This book offers detailed analysis of effective countermeasures and mitigations. The financial sector, healthcare, digital manufacturing, and social media are some of the important areas in which cyber-attacks are frequent and cause great harm. Hence, special emphasis is given to the study and analysis of cyber security challenges and countermeasures in those four important areas. KEY FEATURES * Discusses the prominence of cyber security in human life * Discusses the significance of cyber security in the post-COVID-19 world * Emphasizes the issues, challenges, and applications of cyber security mitigation methods in business and different sectors * Provides comphrension of the impact of cyber security threats and challenges in digital manufacturing and the internet of things environment * Offers understanding of the impact of big data breaches and future trends in data security This book is primarily aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, academicians, and professionals who are interested in exploring their research and knowledge in cyber security domain.

This volume takes the reader on a technological voyage of machine learning advancements, highlighting the systematic changes in algorithms, challenges, and constraints. The technological advancements in the ML arena have transformed and revolutionized several fields, including transportation, agriculture, finance, weather monitoring, and others. This book brings together researchers, authors, industrialists, and academicians to cover a vast selection of topics in ML, starting with the rudiments of machine learning approaches and going on to specific applications in healthcare and industrial automation. The book begins with an overview of the ethics, security and privacy issues, future directions, and challenges in machine learning as well as a systematic review of deep learning techniques and provides an understanding of building generative adversarial networks. Chapters explore predictive data analytics for health issues. The book also adds a macro dimension by highlighting the industrial applications of machine learning, such as in the steel industry, for urban information retrieval, in garbage detection, in measuring air pollution, for stock market predictions, for underwater fish detection, as a fake news predictor, and more.

This new volume, Real-Life Applications of the Internet of Things: Challenges, Applications, and Advances, provides an overview of the Internet of Things along with its architectures, its vital technologies their uses in our daily life and other domains, and associated challenges. The book also covers some advanced topics where IoT is combined with other emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cloud, which will bring a revolution in the era of IoT. Topics in the volume cover the many powerful features and applications of IoT, such as for weather forecasting, in agriculture, in medical science, in surveillance systems, and much more. The first section of the book covers many of the issues and challenging arising from the Internet of Things. The section explores security challenges, such as attack detection and prevention systems as well as energy efficiency and resource management in IoT. Part II introduces various application areas of IoT, including the uses of smart technology in agricultural management, in healthcare diagnosis and monitoring, and in the financial industry. The third section of the book discusses the integration of IoT with blockchain, cloud, and big data and features some advanced topics. The variety of topics includes surveillance network technology, the shift from television to video streaming apps and the technology involved, using IoT-fog computing for smart healthcare, detection of anomalies in climate conditions, and even detection of illegal wood logging activity. The informative chapters in this volume will shed light on the varied challenges, issues, and advances in IoT technology and culture for scientists and researchers, faculty and students, and industry professionals.

Cyber-Physical Systems: A Comprehensive Guide explores the complete sys-tem perspective, underlying theories, modelling, and the applications of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). It aims to cover all topics ranging from discussion of ru-diments of the system, efficient management, to recent research challenges and issues. Editors aim to present the book in a self-sufficient manner and to achieve this, the book has been edited to include all the aspects of CPS. The book fo-cuses on the concept map of CPS including latest technological interventions; issues, challenges, and the integration of CPS with IoT & Big Data Analytics. This aims to bring together unique contributions on cyber-physical systems research and education with applications in industrial, agriculture, and medical domains. The main aim of the book is to provide a roadmap to the latest advancements to provide optimal solutions in the field of CPS. Features * Coverage of rudiments of the subject * Discussion of recent advancements in the associated field * Considers an audience of diverse domains * Suitable for students (both UG and PG level) and researchers in the field of CPS This book aims to present the emergence of Cyber Physical Systems in response to revolutionary advancements in IoT. While discussing the associated challenges, it also endeavors to devise efficient models which are competent to address these challenges. This book aims to cater to researchers and academicians working in the related field of CPS.