Security News > 2020 > March > Forrester: Keeping Smart Cities Safe From Hacks

Emerging technologies being adopted by cities - like facial recognition, smart-city technologies like smart lighting, and 5G-driven IoT - are opening up municipalities to even more security and privacy threats.

Tara Seals: So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about smart cities and municipalities in general and some of the security threats that they're facing.

Some cities have not paid up on the ransom and some cities have paid up.

So aside from ransomware, you had mentioned some of these nuisance attacks and as we move into the smart-city realm where you have the smart lighting and things like that, even potentially on-demand power generation and some of these other things that are coming down the pike to go along with 5G rolling out, what are some of the other concerns outside of ransomware that cities really should be taking into account?

Merritt Maxim: Yeah, there's another kind of macro trend as well, which is that if you go by any of the kind of large surveys, whether it's the UN or World Economic Forum, that the world is going to be increasingly urbanized, the percentage of the world's population that will be living in large cities is going to increase over time, which is reflection of how we as a society are growing.

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