Smart City Cyber Security

Cyber Security for the development of Smart Cities

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Cyber Security Consultant and Enterprise Architect with an interest in semantic systems for security, strategy and architectural development.

Category: Smart City Transformation

  • Centre for Digitally Built Britain and Digital Twin Hub

    I recently came across the Centre for Digital Built Britain, a major programme to advance the development of a digital Great Britain. The Centre for Digital Built Britain is a partnership between the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the University of Cambridge to understand how the construction and infrastructure sectors could use a…

  • Smart City Live 2020 virtual expo 17 Nov

    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 travel Technologies to address global urban challenges Redesigning cities and…

  • Smart City & Cyber Security Strategic Context

    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…

  • Smart City Cyber Security Strategy

    There will come a point in the development and transition of a City into a Smart City where cyber security becomes paramount and for many cities that point may already have been reached. It is at this point a City must assess its ability to deal with a new threat landscape and prepare a strategy…

  • The impetus that drives cyber security

    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…

  • Smart Cities, cyber security and cybernetics

    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…

  • Management of 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, UK Paris, France New York, USA The way in which cities are governed and administered will create some interesting cyber security challenges…