Smart Cities: A New Age of Digital Insecurity

Abstract

The Information Technology world is witnessing a new era which is encompassed with Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart home, smart devices and smart cities which will play a significant role to recognize the “smart” vision. This paper proposes an unambiguous solution as a cobit cube based on ICT infrastructure that caters security issues pertaining to the “gigantic challenges” and flawlessly integrates IoT and smart city structure into one comprehensible unit. This paper also highlights network flaws of smart city and proposes Smart mitigation techniques, hardening of authentication, access point security and effective data encryption methods to secure key exchange. We also present a multi layered an Onion model representing the interactions between smart citizens, servers, smart and secure application, smart societies, smart authorities and smart mobility which are main elements of smart city and their interfaces are what we require to defend.