Potential security and privacy challenges in a smart city

The construction of smart cities will bring about a higher quality of life to the masses through digital interconnectivity, leading to increased efficiency and accessibility in cities.Smart cities must ensure individual privacy and security in order to ensure that its citizens will participate. If citizens are reluctant to participate, the core advantages of a smart citywill dissolve. This article will identify and offer possible solutions to five smart city challenges, in hopes of anticipating destabilizing and costly disruptions. The challengesinclude privacy preservation with high dimensional data, securing a network with a large attack surface, establishing trustworthy data sharing practices, properly utilizing artificialintelligence, and mitigating failures cascading through the smart network. Finally, further research directions are provided to encourage further exploration of smart city challengesbefore their construction.

Keywords:

Smart cities , information security , privacy protection , cyber-physical systems.