CISA has released a joint guide on cybersecurity best practices intended to help communities navigate through the complexities of becoming a smart city.
The city of Eilat, Israel has implemented viisights' behavioral recognition system to detect, predict and analyze events of interests in real-time and alert authorities of crowding, violent/suspicious activity, traffic or crowd congestion, and more.
Risk professionals take note. Experts say the greatest cybersecurity risks to local governments and their "smart city" programs are emergency alert systems, video surveillance devices and traffic signals - a greater risk than breaches of open data, water consumption and gunshot detection technologies and more.
The Ocoee Police Department in Florida will test a new video system that will allow police officers real-time access to surveillance camera feeds, along with the ability to rewind.
City roadways across the world are busier than they have ever been, a record number of vehicles traveling to and from work, school, the gym and wherever else commuters need to be on a daily basis.
Organizations of every type and size are always looking to make more informed decisions. In order to do better and plan for the changing world, they want to have access to as much information as possible. And, rather than implementing a new information gathering system, many are looking to mine the data already being collected by their physical security systems.
