Managing the Cyber Security Life‐Cycle of Smart Cities

This chapter considers the key services of smart city: smart transportation, smart grid, smart water management, and smart healthcare. Smart city functionalities are enabled by a wide variety of technologies across different service sectors. The chapter discusses some of the important and widely used ones. It deals with cyber security and privacy issues associated with different services of smart city. The chapter also discusses the different phases of cyber security and privacy management life cycle. It further proposes a life‐cycle approach to manage the various phases of cyber security of smart cities. Risk assessment is performed to identify and comprehend the risks that can potentially breach the cyber security of the smart city. The process of developing and deploying a proper cyber security program for a smart city is a continual process of analysis, design, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation to changing needs.