Threat of Cyber Attacks in Smart Cities

Abstract

Smart cities are the outcome of integration of technologies with new or existing urban landscapes. There is going to be a paradigm shift of what we experience and what we come to expect from the cities around us. “Smart Cities” would bridge cyber-physical technologies and infrastructure for improving the overall quality of life. In times to come, smart cities will provide businesses efficiency and unprecedented economic opportunities. In effect, these transformations of today’s cities into smart cities will be an amalgamation of two major technologies – millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices dispersed across a city and Network that connects all of these nodes together and enables real-time communication. By year 2020, there will be more than 50 Billion Internet-connected devices that will transform the way we live and work.