The importance of cybersecurity in Smart Cities
To function properly, smart cities have to collect, share, analyse, protect and manage huge amounts of data. This information travels across highly interconnected and distributed environments and will be used to deliver services to citizens that are often safety-critical. It doesn’t take a genius to see how potentially devastating a security vulnerability could be at any one of those points. So what can be done from a cyber-security perspective to protect smart cities, keep our data safe, and ensure services stay up and running when inevitable challenges arise?