Smart cities could help overcome traditional problems of big cities, such as pollution, traffic congestion and administrative corruption. They can stimulate economic productivity, accommodate population growth, and make lives more convenient, but at the same time, they raise many security threats to national security. Daily life needs in smart cities are based on information and communication technologies. Houses, infrastructure, transportation, communication, government services, as well as commercial and industrial services, etc. are controlled by smart systems dependent upon artificial intelligence and the Internet of things1. If these services are targeted by a successful cyber-attack, the consequences in that case would be unaffordable to national security and to people’s lives. This article seeks to analyse the impact of smart cities on national security, and it comes in three main sections. The first one defines smart cities and its different models, the second one analyses the impact of adopting the smart city model on national security, and the conclusion tries to provide some recommendations of how to decrease national security risks in the smart city.
Novel 4,4′-(arylmethylene)-bis(3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5-ol) derivative 2 was synthesized via interaction of N-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-(4-formylphenoxy)acetamide (1) with diverse available reagent (two mole from 3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one). Moreover, One-pot pseudo threecomponent reaction of hydrazine hydrate, ethyl acetoacetate and aldehydes in ethanole using pipridine at 70°C afforded the corresponding aminopyrazole derivative 3. on the other hand, cyanoacetamide scaffolds 4a,b was reacted with aromatic aldehyde particularly N-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-(4-formylphenoxy)acetamide (1), to afford arylidenes 5a,b that undergoes cyclization by heating in ethanol containing drops of piperidine as catalyst, and malononitrile afforded the corresponding pyridinone derivatives 6a,b. All freshly synthesized scaffolds were elucidated by considering the data of both elemental and spectral analyses.
Smart cities represent a lifestyle totally based on making use of such unprecedented technological developments as Artificial Intelligence systems, the internet of things and big data, with the aim of maximizing the use of the available resources, reducing energy consumption and waste, creating an environment that enhances creation and innovation, and improving the quality of life for people by reducing the cost of living and making life easier and safer. Smart cities have become a priority in developments strategies of many countries all over the world. This is simply because they are among the main incentives to development, as they stimulate economic growth and accommodate population growth. It is estimated that in 2025 around 10 million people will be living in 34 smart cities all over the world (Smart Cities in USA",2018), and that almost 70% of the world population will be living in such cities in 2050(Building the Future's Smart Cities, 2016). . In spite of their various advantages smart cities have many national and cyber security concerns. Houses, infrastructure, transportation, communication, government services, as well as commercial and industrial services, etc. are controlled by smart systems dependent upon artificial intelligence and the internet of things. If these services are targeted by a successful cyber-attack, the consequences in that case would be unaffordable to national security and people lives. So, this paper is seeking to discuss the impotence to have smart cities for development and its consequences to national security. METHODOLOGY This study is a desktop normative study, discuss the gains and threats of smart cities. First it will focus on the widespread adoption of smart cities between nations, and second discuss the reason that push countries to adopt this model of cities and the gain they are seeking to have through this model, third it will discuss various security threats that can arise from smart cities, and finally a conclusion with some recommendation for the mitigation of smart city threats.
The world is moving towards increasing reliance on smart technologies throw adopting models of smart governments and smart cities, to get the gain of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in improving human lifestyle, and with accelerating the process of technological modernization that countries are going through, especially during the period of the spread of the Covid-19 virus, to ensure the continuation of human activity, while adhering to the instructions of quarantine and social distancing, the whole world has become more exposed to cyber threats. With the noticeable increase in the frequency of cyber attacks, and the increasing destructive capacity that has become capable of striking nuclear reactors and satellites, as well as critical infrastructure, this means that cyber war has become more likely than before, in a way that may be more fierce than other wars, Within a few minutes, thousands of deaths may occur if a cyber attack succeeds in targeting one of the vital facilities of countries, such as aviation systems or hospitals. Cyberspace is the main battlefield for this coming war. It is the fifth domain of the new battle after the four traditional fields - land, sea, air and outer space. Hence the importance of this paper, which discusses threats to Arab regional security in the fifth domain, these new threats resulting from the increasing dependence on cyberspace, and seeks to provide a vision that helps decision makers in formulating a national and Arab strategy to confront the risks of cyber threats facing Arab regional cyber security.
The world is moving towards increasing reliance on smart technologies throw adopting models of smart governments and smart cities, to get the gain of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in improving human lifestyle, and with accelerating the process of technological modernization that countries are going through, especially during the
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