Ali Ismail Awad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar University, Qena, Egypt. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and his research interests include information security, with a focus on biometrics, pattern recognition and computer networks.Michael Fairhurst is Professor of Computer Vision in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at the University of Kent, UK. His research interests have a focus on the fundamental processes of image analysis and pattern recognition, with particular emphasis on applications in security and, especially, biometrics, and he is a Fellow of the IAPR. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IET Biometrics Journal and Series Editor of the IET Book Series on Advances in Biometrics.

• Part I: Theories and foundationsChapter 1: Introduction to information security foundations and applicationsChapter 2: Information security foundation, theories and future visionChapter 3: Information systems security issues in the context of developing countriesChapter 4: Biometric systems, modalities and attacksChapter 5: Foundation of healthcare cybersecurityChapter 6: Security challenges and solutions for e-businessChapter 7: Recent security issues in Big Data: from past to the future of information systemsChapter 8: Recent advances in unconstrained face recognition Part II: Technologies and applicationsChapter 9: Hardware security: side-channel attacks and hardware TrojansChapter 10: Cybersecurity: timeline malware analysis and classificationChapter 11: Recent trends in the cryptanalysis of block ciphersChapter 12: Image provenance inference through content-based device fingerprint analysisChapter 13: EEG-based biometrics for person identification and continuous authenticationChapter 14: Data security and privacy in the Internet-of-ThingsChapter 15: Information security algorithm on embedded hardware