Smart City Cyber Security
Cyber Security for the development of Smart Cities
Category: Smart City
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As more technology is designed and developed for smart cities, to manage individual services or complex platform solutions, these technologies will be governed by compliance and regulation to control use and operation. Their generation and management of data will be a key focus as well as how they are secured and monitored. It is this…
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The example high level Criteria taxonomy below provides guidance on the types of capability characteristics needed to detail a specific view of how the capability will be made up. This should be supported by a lower level of Criteria, that will need to extend this high level set with the attributes needed to address specific…
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As part of the wider Evidence Initiative, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)—the research and policy arm of The Economist Group—has produced a first-of-its-kind Evidence Map to track the availability and characteristics of data in Group of 20 (G20) countries that policymakers need to make sound decisions. – The Economist Group and The Pew Charitable Trusts…
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If there is one lesson to learn from the cyber security incidents that have plagued public and private organisations it is a problem of the lack of knowledge of assets, appropriate configurations and impact assessments. Asset and configuration management has over, the last 20 years, been a troubling story and cyber attacks have benefited from…
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Following the recent publication of a report on ‘Smart City Cybersecurity’, produced by technology market data analysis firm ABI Research, there have been a series of supporting news articles. Many just covering the basics of the report but a few go on to push the arguments. Here are a few of the more informative. Site…
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The term Capability is often used in business reports and publications to describe something particular to a person, technology or an organisation but in many cases it is often less clear as to what exactly that “capability” is, how it materialises or is managed. So for the sake of clarity and understanding i am going…
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A recent article from IOT World highlights that real world events can trigger cyber attacks either as protest or retaliation. City Security: How Fort Lauderdale Deals with Cyber Threats The article describes: In 2014, the city of Ferguson, Mo. was hit with a cyberattack in apparent retaliation for the police shooting of the unarmed teen…
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It is important to be aware of and take note from Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety when addressing the problem of cyber security for a smart city. If a system is to be stable, the number of states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the…
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Two events this year show what can happen with home security cameras. 1. An Illinois couple said a hacker spoke to their baby through one of their Nest security cameras and then later hurled obscenities at them, CBS station WBBM-TV reports. Arjun Sud told the station he was outside his 7-month-old son’s room Sunday outside…
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