The articles in this special section focus on recent advances in security and privacy for future intelligent networks. Recent booming advancements in networking techniques have led to an evolution toward future intelligent networks (FINs). This trend takes place under a circumstance in which a great number of devices are connected for specific purposes by a variety of novel techniques. In FINs, we envision the benefits of integrating intelligence into networks. Contemporarily, these emerging techniques are still at the exploration stage, leaving many privacy and security challenges unaddressed. Existing researchers have already uncovered a great amount of attacks and threats. The situation will be more complicated when incorporating artifi cial intelligence (AI) techniques into networking, as AI techniques are facing unknown or new types of privacy and security threats. To tackle the security challenges in the design of FINs, we organize this Special Issue focusing on the security and privacy of future FINs.

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未来智能网络在安全性和隐私性方面的最新进展

本节中的文章重点介绍了未来智能网络在安全性和隐私性方面的最新进展。网络技术的最新蓬勃发展已导致向未来的智能网络（FIN）的演进。这种趋势发生在通过各种新颖技术将大量设备用于特定目的的情况下。在FIN中，我们设想了将情报集成到网络中的好处。同时，这些新兴技术仍处于探索阶段，未解决许多隐私和安全挑战。现有的研究人员已经发现了大量的攻击和威胁。将人工智能（AI）技术整合到网络中后，情况将更加复杂，人工智能技术正面临着未知或新型的隐私和安全威胁。为了解决FIN设计中的安全挑战，我们组织了本期专刊，重点关注未来FIN的安全性和隐私性。