Following on from the previous article, Domain ontology are supported by application ontology and work together to provide a comprehensive and context-specific representation of knowledge within a specific domain and its corresponding application. Application ontologies provide a particular solution by facilitating data integration, knowledge sharing, and semantic interoperability within cybersecurity knowledge and operations capability. This … Continue reading Application Ontology and Smart City Cyber Security
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As the Smart City threat landscape continues to expand, it has become increasingly important to employ effective strategies that maximise our understanding of the data we produce. One such strategy is the use of domain ontologies, which play a crucial role in enhancing cybersecurity knowledge and decisions making efforts. I will explore the significance of … Continue reading Use of domain ontologies for Smart City Cybersecurity
Smart cities are transforming urban landscapes around the world, leveraging the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve efficiency, sustainability, and the quality of life. In this post, I will explore the diverse range of IoT device domains that will form domain ontologies to support cyber security monitoring and detection. Smart Sensors Domain: … Continue reading Scope of smart city domain ontologies for cyber security
The increasing development of cyber-physical technology in a smart city means an equal increase in the threat landscape and risk of cyber attack. The UK Government has recently published an interesting paper on the vision of cyber-physical infrastructure. This PDF covers the diverse range of capabilities offered by cyber-physical technologies including some interesting semantic topics … Continue reading Smart City Cyber Security Ontology and Inferencing Proof of Concept overview.
In 2019/2020 I designed and built a proof of concept for Smart City digital twins, smart city ontologies and smart city cyber security threats between connected vehicles and city infrastructure. The project used smart city domain ontologies for vehicles and city infrastructure in an attempt to build knowledge graph representations of asset-to-asset threats and make … Continue reading New Proof of Concept (POC) with STARDOG and knowledge graph development
Over the last few months i have had little time to continue my research and writing for this blog hence the gap of three months. I am now able to continue and will pick of where i left off with SAFE modelling, NIST CSF and Smart City Cyber Security as well as new topics such … Continue reading Update and Smart Cities post Covid19
I am going to use the Cisco SAFE security reference architecture as a complimentary method to NIST CSF to help explain how these methods can be used to support a Smart City Cyber Security Strategy. SAFE is further expanded through its identification of threat types and mapping to MITRE ATT&CK. In particular i will focus … Continue reading Cisco SAFE security reference architecture
The investment into a smart city cyber security strategy will be considerable, in both monetary and resource effort, so it is very important to define the variety of strategic context for senior stakeholders and those involved in operations. Assumptions are often too easily made on the basis that the reasons, goals and objectives are fully … Continue reading Smart City & Cyber Security Strategic Context
Here is a link to a Blog covering the main Smart City Conferences in 2020. CitizenLab Blog - Smart City Conferences in 2020 Several of these conferences have sections on Security: MOVE 2020 - Security, Liability & RegulationSmartCity - Safety & SecuritySmart Cities SummitSmart City Solutions
A review of recent attacks to City public services around the World revels a range of attack types and also the rise of IOT Botnet capabilities including the new Botnet developed for DDoS attacks using the Kaiji malaware. Attacks to City public services continues with the same theme of phishing attacks to employees to launch … Continue reading Recent attacks to City Public Services
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