The SMART Cities of the future will depend on complex IT systems which will also be subject to both IT and human attacks. This convergence will present organisations with increasingly difficult challenges. To date most responses have focused on physical and cyber security separately but few have understood how to secure their people and organisations from combined cyber physical attacks and so the SMART City will be vulnerable. Almost every day there are examples of cyber physical attacks as technology, AI and robotics advances and the criminal exploits the insecure buildings, networks, systems and devices.

⦁ What are the best security strategies? 

⦁ Blended cyber physical threats 

⦁ Converged security strategies and real time technical solutions 

⦁ Cross functional teaming, collaboration and common security risk reporting 

⦁ Trustworthiness and secure systems 

Unified Security Ltd has published a white paper sponsored by AXIS Communications, Smart Buildings and Smart Cities Security.

Cyber security and privacy capabilities can only be responded to by taking them seriously and taking actions that develop these functions over time. This paper provides some key high-level recommendations for stakeholders at the start of their Smart Building or City project. These include the development of an enterprise wide approach to security risk and Converged 

Security Centres to identify and respond to cyber physical threats in near-real-time to ensure a building fails safe and data breaches are effectively managed. Regardless of what role any stakeholder plays, they do in fact have a responsibility to hold other stakeholders to account when it comes to cyber security and privacy.

control flow and leveraging the technologies and data in the right way.

“The authors would like to acknowledge the of Axis Communications as sponsors of this paper. We welcome their commitment in realising the vision of Smart Buildings and Cities.”