{"id":698,"date":"2017-04-30T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/04\/30\/3-ways-smart-cities-data-security-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2017-04-30T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:14:00","slug":"3-ways-smart-cities-data-security-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/3-ways-smart-cities-data-security-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Smart Cities = Data Security Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The uptick in hacks as connectivity increases:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>42% increase in the number of connected devices since 2016<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0number of attacks on critical infrastructure jumped from under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/07\/us\/politics\/homeland-security-dept-struggles-to-hire-staff-to-combat-cyberattacks.html\" style=\"color:rgb(7,135,177);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;font-family:Guardian;background-position:0px 0px;\">200 in 2012 to almost 300 attacks in 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Smart technology adoption<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>is high, but:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>innovations are deployed without robust testing<\/li>\n<li>cybersecurity is often neglected<\/li>\n<li>security protocols are not kept current<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A hypothetical hack of power systems impacting 93 Million in North America would cost:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0anywhere from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603937\/insurers-scramble-to-put-a-price-on-a-cyber-catastrophe\/?set=604089&amp;utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&amp;utm_campaign=3cc57ffcc5-The_Download_2017-04-06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_997ed6f472-3cc57ffcc5-154352697\" style=\"color:rgb(7,135,177);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;font-family:Guardian;background-position:0px 0px;\">$21 billion to $71 billion in damages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/04\/smart-cities-are-going-to-be-a-security-nightmare\">Harvard Business Review |\u00a0Smart Cities Are Going to Be a Security Nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The uptick in hacks as connectivity increases:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>42% increase in the number of connected devices since 2016<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0number of attacks on critical infrastructure jumped from under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/07\/us\/politics\/homeland-security-dept-struggles-to-hire-staff-to-combat-cyberattacks.html\" style=\"color:rgb(7,135,177);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;font-family:Guardian;background-position:0px 0px;\">200 in 2012 to almost 300 attacks in 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Smart technology adoption<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>is high, but:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>innovations are deployed without robust testing<\/li>\n<li>cybersecurity is often neglected<\/li>\n<li>security protocols are not kept current<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A hypothetical hack of power systems impacting 93 Million in North America would cost:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0anywhere from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603937\/insurers-scramble-to-put-a-price-on-a-cyber-catastrophe\/?set=604089&amp;utm_source=MIT+Technology+Review&amp;utm_campaign=3cc57ffcc5-The_Download_2017-04-06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_997ed6f472-3cc57ffcc5-154352697\" style=\"color:rgb(7,135,177);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;font-family:Guardian;background-position:0px 0px;\">$21 billion to $71\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2,16,21,31,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issue","category-data-privacy","category-government-data-breach","category-local-government","category-telecommunications","category-transportation","category-utilities","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}