In the growing “Internet of Things” (IoT), more and more everyday objects are equipped with some processing power and networked to other such objects with the goal to orchestrate complex behaviors in interaction with the humans occupying the shared space. Well-hyped examples of such intended behaviors are of course home automation, intelligent traffic coordination, or healthcare support. To create such a complex system of individually active components, some researchers are turning to nature for guidance. There we find many examples of large-scale self-organizing systems comprising simple components (e.g., ants in a colony) within which robust and adaptive goal-oriented system-level behavior emerges (e.g., formation of efficient trail networks to bring food to the nest). But not only do we seek to engineer the desired primary system functions as emergent features of a self-organizing system, we also apply the approach to create the secondary function that all these IoT systems should have in common: Cyber Security. In our talk, we briefly provide an introduction to self-organization and emergence in natural and engineered systems and then outline our vision for swarming cyber security that AXON Ghost Sentinel is working towards.