Increasing urban population, ecological urgency and energy transition, constraints on public finances, increasing the comfort of life for residents and employees, etc.: all these issues are challenges that Smart City could help address and that are pushing local authorities to invest in this direction. All these issues are giving rise to numerous “smart” technologies such as smart grids, smart transportation, smart buildings and smart cities.
The industrial information system has the characteristic of being in direct contact with the physical world: water management, traffic lights, variable road signs, retractable bollards, intelligent lighting, autonomous car control, etc. While these developments increase the connectivity and criticality of these systems, they also create a greater need for adaptability, resilience, safety and security.
Maintaining key functional assets, such as elevators, air conditioners, and cameras, while protecting them from cyber risks, requires ongoing control of user roles and rights.
As modern information systems, mixed legacy and modern operational technology meet, advanced cybersecurity is needed to protect systems, equipment, and data.
The purpose of IoT information system is to collect data as close as possible to its source, through the deployment of connected objects, via multiple entry points on the information system in potentially hostile environments. As a result, these objects expose central equipment to threats. This is why in the Internet of Things era, cyber threats are becoming more prevalent.
Secure the building management
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Protecting building management systems (BMS) is crucial to ensure the security and proper functioning of a building’s critical infrastructure.
Remote access is now mandatory and you must deploy smart cybersecurity tools to reply to the maintenance teams and their third-party contractors needs.
Access control, physical security, HVAC systems, elevators, etc. have to be securely and semlessly connected on a proper network and managed by a centralized Identity and Priviledge access management solution.
Thus, remote connection will be allowed with the right secure level of control, approval, tracking and monitoring, enabling OT supervisors to managed all privileged access rights from anywhere.
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Defend your city data and
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Protecting critical smart city assets anddata is essential to ensuring the security and resilience of the entireinfrastructure, data privacy and the wellbeing citizens.
Connected territories have shared theirexisting data to data management platforms, and IoT have opened up the cities’IT/OT networks in an anarchically.
Integrating security rules bydesign is not an option, and the deployment of smart city solutions/assetsneeds to be thought through using strong authentication, encryption and accesscontrols at every layer of the infrastructure.
But to be achievable andefficient, it needs to be carried out with a centralized user-centric approach.
