Smart Cities: A Survey on Security Concerns

Ijaz, Siddra; Shah, Munam Ali; Khan, Abid Muhammad; Ahmed, Mansoor

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2016.070277

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“…Privacy and security is a paramount challenge with regard to technical issues, together with other concerns such as interoperability and technological expenses (Naphade, M. et al, 2011). Safeguarding data from malicious attacks, viruses, frauds and other vicious actions is a fundamental task of information security (Ijaz, S. et al, 2016) and any adverse impact of information security greatly affects the society's economic aspects (Anderson, R., 2001).…”

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A Systematic Review of Blockchain-based Services for Security Upgradation of a Smart City

Feroz¹

2020

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

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The concept of smart city has gained popularity in recent years. The elementary concept refers to promoting the uninterrupted sharing of data and services within and across communities by the application of emerging technologies. Smart cities strive for cost reduction, optimal use of resources and the development of a more sustainable environment. Considerable advances in modern technologies such as IoT and wireless communication have enabled sharing of data between remote devices which are geared with open data, hence a smart city is susceptible to a number of security threats. It is important to identify these threats, analyze IoT data to improve privacy and security and identify the corresponding consequences. Blockchain has emerged as a promising solution to resolve these challenges. Blockchain is a peer-to-peer shared database technology that cannot be modified once a transaction is recorded and validated. This study explores the contribution of blockchain to smart cities in terms of decentralized security, immutability, transparency and privacy to provide intelligent, customized and context-aware services to smart city dwellers. A brief overview of this novel technology has been given along with its deployment in a smart city setting, the open issues discussed and prospective scope of blockchain application has been presented.

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A Systematic Review of Blockchain-based Services for Security Upgradation of a Smart City

Feroz¹

2020

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

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“…As reported in [147], the "Stuxnet" malware menaced the security of several Iranian nuclear plants by profiting the fact that the default password of a popular brand of PLC remained unchanged during years. A list of cybersecurity problems was also listed in [147][148][149].…”

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Multidisciplinary Approach for the Development of Smart Distribution Networks

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Electric power systems are experiencing relevant changes involving the growing penetration of distributed generation and energy storage systems, the introduction of electric vehicles, the management of responsive loads, the proposals for new energy markets and so on. Such evolution is pushing for a paradigm shift: the management must move from traditional planning and manual intervention to full "smartization" of medium and low voltage networks. Peculiarities and criticalities of future power distribution networks originate from the complexity of the system that includes both the physical aspects of electric networks and the cyber aspects, like data elaboration, feature extraction, communication, supervision and control; only fully integrated advanced monitoring systems can foster this transition towards network automation. The design and development of such future networks require distinct kinds of expertise in the industrial and information engineering fields. In this context, this paper provides a comprehensive review of current challenges and multidisciplinary interactions in the development of smart distribution networks.

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“…Moreover, smart cities is highly coupled with a list of recent technologies and innovations such as Internet of Things (IoT) because smart cities is developed, deployed and maintained with the help of IoT [2], cloud computing and wearable/environmental sensors [3]. The variety of smart cities components indicates to the complexity of its structure since it includes the following components: (i) smart environment e.g.…”

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