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Cybersecurity for Smart Cities: A Brief Review

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Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration (DARE 2016)

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By leveraging advancements in information and communications technology (ICT), Smart Cities offer many potential benefits like improved energy efficiency, management and personal security. However, this dependence on ICT also makes smart cities prone to cyber attacks. In this paper, we investigate the topic of cybersecurity for smart cities. We show how the specific characteristics of smart cities give rise to cybersecurity challenges, and review the different threats faced. Finally, we review some of the more important cybersecurity solutions for smart cities that have been proposed.

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  1. Institute Center for Smart and Sustainable Systems (iSmart), Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Armin Alibasic, Reem Al Junaibi, Zeyar Aung, Wei Lee Woon & Mohammad Atif Omar

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  1. Masdar Institute of Science and Technology , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Wei Lee Woon

  2. Electrical Eng. & Computer Science, Masdar Inst. of Science &Technology Electrical Eng. & Computer Science, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Zeyar Aung

  3. Informatik, Universität Oldenburg Informatik, Oldenburg, Germany

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  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Alibasic, A., Al Junaibi, R., Aung, Z., Woon, W.L., Omar, M.A. (2017). Cybersecurity for Smart Cities: A Brief Review. In: Woon, W., Aung, Z., Kramer, O., Madnick, S. (eds) Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration. DARE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10097. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50947-1_3

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