The Threat of Cyber Attacks on the Smart Cities

With more attacks being orchestrated by well financed groups the threat to the progression of the smart cities is the cyber attack. Only this week our team was in Turkey when the nation was paralysed by a power cut. While this is deemed a common occurrence in Turkey, perhaps not in this scale, the future of such outages can be the work of cyber hackers.

Cyber hacks are not just a threat due to the data that they steal or the shut down of services, but also to how they can or have already be able to manipulate data. There could be some instances already where changes in individuals’ or organizations data records have been altered and the consequences well not be realized for years to come.

Is this part of the Smart Cities projects that is being catered for right know or as with most of the internet now, it is a case of carrying on and reacting to a cyber attack?