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Smart Cities Security Issues: An Impeding Identity Crisis

Authors:
Felipe Ferraz
Carlos Ferraz
Ademir Gomes

Keywords: Identity; Security; Smart Cities

Abstract:
Cities have changed the manner in which population is distributed around the globe. Beginning in the 70s, a large number of people began to migrate from the countryside to a metropolis. In such a scenario, it is necessary to build city systems and provide citizens with different methods to interact with these systems. Further, citizens play an important role in building this interoperable environment, and they are required to provide data and information about themselves in order to improve the functioning of the systems. However, citizens do not want their personal and private data to be disseminated in the city. This study explores problems in information security, and, more specifically, those related to identifier and identity management in the context of a smart city environment. This study proposes to address such problems by using an architecture that separates identifiers from data, thus creating a multiple identity infrastructure.

Pages: 302 to 310

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016