So, in the last section, I introduced you to
the Myriad of clear and present dangers, facing
our future cities, which is economic
its environmental and its social.
And then I introduced you to the four
kinds of sectors that we're going to
be diving little bit more in detail about
smart Mobility, Future Energy.
Gee iot in an open data
and this section. We're going to dive
a little bit deeper into the security
that we is required. To
make sure that you have a safe and responsible
City.
So technology is rapidly influencing our
social and physical, surroundings are physical
and digital cities Spirit coming more integrated and we need to have
kind of urgent solutions to keep our cities, more
sustainable livable and safe. So I'm going to
hold your hand and walk you through the various Transformations
and threats and
kinds of solutions that we
can start getting familiar with and
we're going to start by
Understanding how connected are new Urban environments,
are and we need to
know what kinds of attacks are taking place in
our cities and most importantly, what
you can do as an IT professional to
help. Keep our cities safe
and secure.
So again, I'm context guy and it's
really important to kind of like go back in time, 40 years and
look at the many Transit technological. Transformations
has been taking place. So in
the 1980s when I was still
a baby and I do remember this, there were personal
computers coming online and from the Homer
from the offices. We suddenly had kind of
beginnings of the private internet and
later in the 90s, the internet's
Growing. Tim berners-lee introduced the
world to the internet, the World
Wide Web where we could use, email and
PCs, could talk to one, another thanks
to maybe Microsoft Windows, 95,
98, if you remember those fast
forward to 2006 and later in
the 2000s, specifically Steve
Jobs suit up on stage and introduced us to the mobile
phones. Many many handheld device.
Is like the like a Blackberry and
other mobile phones. And
we had much faster internet websites
became easier
to make easier to connect to.
And, of course, the dawn of the
social media in the 2010s, things get
really robust and start scaling to
software as solution, Cloud, applications Cloud
processing.
Iot and smartphones and apps today.
We're now in the 2020s and
that includes 5G technologies that
are being deployed all over City's Edge Computing,
which are micro processing inside of
small devices deployed all around
our city and machine learning Ai
and Quantum Computing, which are Super Advanced
super fast, super robust
kinds of solutions to Urban problem.
Oops.
So there are a lot of terms that start
describing our various connection types. And these
are the types of connectivity that
bridge all those gaps in our Smart City. So
the first one as you see is a kind of
wsn, which is a wireless sensor Network. These
systems can start measuring environmental
conditions, such as temperature, sound pollution levels,
immunity wins so, very much environmental.
It's kinds of data.
Yeah, those are far Computing which is a
hyper local processing to carry out the substantial amount
of computational storage and communication locally.
So, big robust
machines that can kind of deal with
lots of data, the data inputs and produce. Lots
of insights very quickly. Iot is
the most common type of device or
system in a smart city and
these describe the physical objects.
Have a piece of software inside the sensors that
can exchange and deliver data over
the Internet cloud computing. As we know a
lot of cities are Outsourcing all of their responsibilities
to the cloud. Whether it's Amazon or
Google, they can deal with on-demand processing
and iot storage of data without
direct active management by the user
super handy for cities. There's
also cyber-physical
mcps has, which is a mechanism control
button monitored by computer based algorithms. So,
again, Outsourcing all of the processing
to machines that are doing that thinking, for us and
big data analytics will get
into this in later sections, but
there's lots and lots of data that's being collected
and we humans are
too stupid or too lazy to actually process all
of that stuff ourselves. So we ask the
machine.
Needs to produce that with their
own types of software.
All of this connectivity of course comes at a
pretty high price and that's where the
it community and security cyber Security. Experts
come in, there's lots of new
vulnerability that are exposed or
introduced to all of these kinds
of systems and processes. So
we will cover this in
much more detail in the sections to come.
So let's get familiar with
cybersecurity and what it means for you.
And as I discussed earlier, there's lots of kinds of urgent
problems facing our cities, which
become kind of critical infrastructures that we need to
protect and defend in this slide. I'm just describing,
just basically six attacks on our critical infrastructure.
For example, food security JBS.
It's a US based company,
which is the world's biggest Meatpacking manufacturer,
which was attacked and forces shut
down for several.
A's and plants around the world to it completely rattle.
The beef markets, there's also
Municipal services so and just 2020 will
loan, there was over 30 government agencies that
were hit by hackers, which stole
a critical data and then held hostage basically until
they pay Bitcoin. I'm going to go into a lot more detail on
those kinds of cases later on in the the modules water
supply critical infrastructure this
year. They broke into
Into treatment plants in California, and Florida, and
hopes to poison the water supply, maybe just
because they could, or maybe they actually did want to
hold it for ransom, Healthcare SuperSU.
This is really life-and-death stuff in
the us alone. There were over 25% of the hospitals had been
attacked, which in fact increase the death rates and
delayed patient care, not good, gas
infrastructure. Again a little bit of energy, little bit
of Mobility, but this made it
News earlier this year, the colonial Pipeline and hackers
were able to shut down the entire us, Seaboard will
supply causing massive shortages and
last lasted weeks and when
two months Financial system, something
hits the wallet, something to us personally, but also business, and
they are 300 times more likely than
any other institution to experience disruptive and
transactions and even Bank,
solvency and Independence. Ie.
30. So these are just six quick examples,
just from this year about how
important it is to protect our infrastructures.
So, we discussed what kinds of
attacks happened, occurred
to specific Industries in
this slide. I'm just going to go very, very quickly through the
kind of top 10, cyber threat types.
And these are kind of familiar. For
those of you that do have some it cybersecurity
experience, viruses
ransomware, spearfishing, web
application attacks.
Tax, DDOS identity theft,
data breach Insider threat, physical
manipulation damage theft or loss which
I've experienced myself devices all over the city
and cyber Espionage. And
these are all real things. There's many, many more, but
these are just kind of a quick kind of summary of
the types of attacks and threats
that are facing our cities. And I'm
hoping that you
That are listening or studying can help
us solve it.
So this is the last slide where I
introduce you to the various Smart
Security topics, and
I wanted to kind of break it down into three sections. One
is prevention, which is about you helping
your city's come up with some good practices
and good techniques about it hygiene and
how to maintain the security infrastructure.
The other one is born mechanical more
proactive about practicing.
Coding, good coding practices latest
security software, understanding the
firewall accounts. And of
course, providing good access to backups.
And the other one is more prospective, which
is future proofing. This systems to expose isolate
investigate and eliminate types of
cyber threats and vulnerabilities. And these are
all super important kinds of preventive
measures to make sure that your city.
Is operating at best capacity?
So that's the section one. Glad you
could join me in this next section. I'm going to introduce you
to the Smart Energy sector, which is one
of the most robust and dynamic
pieces of smart
City infrastructure, and we're
going to dive deep. So get out your pen and
paper.