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XAI-driven data mining for IoT cybersecurity in smart city infrastructure

Source article: XAI-driven Data Mining for Self-defending IoT Systems: Enhancing Cybersecurity Transparency in the Age of Smart Cities

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in smart cities, healthcare, and industrial automation has intensified the need for cybersecurity frameworks capable of operating at scale and in real time under increasingly sophisticated threat conditions. Traditional security mechanisms and opaque AI-based models are no longer adequate for protecting interconnected urban infrastructures, especially as regulatory and societal expectations move toward transparency and accountability. Although prior su…

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XAI-driven Data Mining for Self-defending IoT Systems: Enhancing Cybersecurity Transparency in the Age of Smart Cities

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The quick read

Published February 20, 2026, this peer-reviewed survey in Cognitive Computation reviews XAI-driven data mining for self-defending IoT systems. It describes how IoT expansion in smart cities, healthcare, and industrial automation creates need for real-time, scalable security, and how XAI methods aim to detect anomalies and support automated decisions with transparent reasoning.

The review matters because it connects explainability to trust and auditability in safety-critical urban infrastructure, while also documenting that privacy, scalability, computational constraints, and interpretability limits remain unresolved. Future directions center on edge intelligence, federated learning, blockchain, and quantum-assisted analytics for resilient human-centric systems.

Main points
  • Survey reviews XAI-driven data mining for IoT cybersecurity in smart cities, healthcare, and industrial automation.
  • Highlights use of cognitively inspired and human-aligned explainability to improve trust and situational awareness.
  • Discusses enablers including edge intelligence, federated learning (FL), blockchain integration, and quantum-assisted analytics.
  • Identifies ongoing challenges of data privacy, scalability, computational constraints, and interpretability limitations.
Gain

XAI-driven data mining applied to IoT ecosystems can detect anomalies and support automated security decisions through transparent and interpretable reasoning for smart city infrastructure.

Problem

Traditional and opaque AI security mechanisms are inadequate for protecting interconnected urban IoT infrastructures, facing challenges of data privacy, scalability, computational constraints, and limited interpretability.

The rundown

The survey synthesizes recent literature on explainable AI for IoT security, noting prior surveys rarely addressed XAI in data mining for IoT or integrated cognitively inspired explanation methods.

It frames transparent, auditable decision-making as necessary as regulatory and societal expectations move toward accountability, and points to edge intelligence, federated learning, blockchain, and quantum-assisted analytics as future enablers.

What this doesn’t fix

Review identifies persistent constraints to deployment including privacy, scalability, and computational limits of current models.

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