Whilst i didn't get the chance to attend all of the sessions today i was very impressed with those i did attend. I did enjoy the opening session - A Conversation with Minister Takuya Hirai: a New Digitalization Strategy for Japan - and in particular their plans for a Digital Agency and the principles they … Continue reading Smart City Expo day 1
Category: Smart City Administration
The governance and administrative structure for a city
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 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
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 … Continue reading Standards and Best Practice to support Smart City Cyber Security and City Regulation and Compliance
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 … Continue reading The Evidence Initiative and Smart Cities
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 … Continue reading Lessons to be learned from recent attacks to cities
Whilst the structure and services of global cities are very similar there are very different ways in which cities are governed and administrated. This post will consider three different countries and cities: London, UKParis, FranceNew York, USA The way in which cities are governed and administered will create some interesting cyber security challenges as each … Continue reading Management of Cities
Smart City Cyber Security 