Starting tomorrow is the Smart City Expo World Congress virtual event. Details can be found at SmartCityExpo website. Covid19 is a common theme across the Agenda but there are a host of other events covering the following themes:- Adapting urban mobility to safe and sustainable travelTechnologies to address global urban challengesRedesigning cities and urban living … Continue reading Smart City Live 2020 virtual expo 17 Nov
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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
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
Zenzic, in partnership with the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and Innovate UK, invested £1.2 million in 7 projects to support the development of connected and self-driving vehicle cyber security testing capabilities. Cyber Resilience in CAM – Cyber Feasibility Report is now available to download. The report was developed to summarise the findings … Continue reading Zenzic Cyber Resilience in Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Report
The second part of the NIST CSF Identify Function is the Business or City Environment in this case. According to the standard, the purpose of this function category is: The organization’s mission, objectives, stakeholders, and activities are understood and prioritized; this information is used to inform cybersecurity roles, responsibilities, and risk management decisions. Cities are … Continue reading Smart City: Identify – City Environment
For an overview of this concept, I am going to reference an article written by Dave McComb called The Enterprise Ontology. It offers a good description of an Enterprise Ontology as well as some very good reasons as to why an organisation, and in this case a City or the City Administration, should build one. The … Continue reading Learning from an Enterprise Ontology
Design Guide: Smart City Asset Management Design Guide It is not surprising that the first item in NIST CF is Asset Management with the mapping to the informative references being CIS Control 1 Inventory and Control of Hardware Assets and ISO 27K Annex A8 Asset Management. It is a fundamental requirement for cyber security. Over … Continue reading Smart City: Identify – Asset Management
In this second part introduction to the Cyber Security Framework for a Smart City i will cover the scope of the framework using the best practice described by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and how the components can be used to work together with a Smart City strategy and thus effect a smart city cyber security … Continue reading Cyber Security Framework for Smart Cities – part 2
Introduction to a series of posts and resources i plan to put together to outline the key aspects of a Cyber Security Framework for a Smart City strategy. Having recently acted as an Advisor to a new Innovate UK research project I thought I would use and adapt some of the recommendations, for problems I … Continue reading Cyber Security Framework for Smart Cities – part 1
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