Cybersecurity and Smart Cities: Current Status and Future

Abstract

A Smart city implements the latest IoT and information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the quality of urban city administrations, decrease expenditures, asset management and interconnect citizens of a Smart city. Smart cities offer numerous advantages like improved energy productivity, management, healthcare facilities, efficient transport systems, proper waste and water management, and individual security. Nonetheless, this reliance on ICT and IoT technologies makes a Smart city prone to digital cyber assaults. These technologies are vulnerable to many security issues like Information theft, Eavesdropping attack, Denial of service, Communication delays, Data manipulation, IoT security attacks, Communication interception, Jamming, Sensor failure, insecure API, and Remote exploitation. This research study intends to address opinions on cybersecurity technologies, vulnerabilities, and cybercrime awareness based on the systematic literature review "PRISMA Model" as our research method and help researchers and practitioners to look for innovative Smart City solutions. Our research endeavors to momentarily depict the central ideas of digital security and protection issues related to Smart city areas and uncover digital cyber-attacks that focus on Smart city communities in the literature. In brief, the focus of this research is to explore and review the aspects of Smart city cybersecurity issues, Smart city vulnerabilities related to information security, and provide a comprehensive research framework that will help the researchers and practitioners explore this area of research.

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“…369 Despite the advances, potential, and opportunities available, due to the reliance on artificial intelligence and IoT technologies, the smart city is susceptible to digital cyber attacks. 370 The development of smart cities with their integrated technologies (such as self-powered sensors, IoT, and artificial intelligence) has brought us into the world of modern cyber security challenges. Smart city technology is vulnerable to many security issues such as information theft, eavesdropping attacks, denial of service, communication delays, data manipulation, Internet of Things security attacks, communication interception, jamming, and sensor failure.…”

“…Smart city technology is vulnerable to many security issues such as information theft, eavesdropping attacks, denial of service, communication delays, data manipulation, Internet of Things security attacks, communication interception, jamming, and sensor failure. 370 Therefore, it is necessary to focus on this challenge, evaluate new ideas for providing digital security, and study different aspects of smart city cyber security to solve this problem. In addition to smart cities, smart homes that use the technology of IoT-based selfpowered sensors can support residents, especially the elderly, by creating safe homes, where they can live safely, effectively, and most importantly comfortably in a monitored environment with the ability to continuously alert healthcare units and their family members in case of warning signals.…”

“…In the future, these sensors will take advantages of 5G-equipped mobile phones which will enable safe and timely communication . Despite the advances, potential, and opportunities available, due to the reliance on artificial intelligence and IoT technologies, the smart city is susceptible to digital cyber attacks . The development of smart cities with their integrated technologies (such as self-powered sensors, IoT, and artificial intelligence) has brought us into the world of modern cyber security challenges.…”

“…The development of smart cities with their integrated technologies (such as self-powered sensors, IoT, and artificial intelligence) has brought us into the world of modern cyber security challenges. Smart city technology is vulnerable to many security issues such as information theft, eavesdropping attacks, denial of service, communication delays, data manipulation, Internet of Things security attacks, communication interception, jamming, and sensor failure . Therefore, it is necessary to focus on this challenge, evaluate new ideas for providing digital security, and study different aspects of smart city cyber security to solve this problem.…”