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
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
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
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 … Continue reading Defining the capability criteria for required Smart City cyber security
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
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