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Information Security in Smart Cities

Authors:
Felipe Silva Ferraz
Carlos Candido Barros Sampaio
Carlos André Guimarães Ferraz

Keywords: Smart City; Information Security; Security Standards.

Abstract:
As the population living in cities and metropolis grows, the need for the transformation of a city into a Smart City grows, too. The Smart City concept refers to a broad range of definitions and technologies; among those it is possible to identify topics such as Internet of Things, ubiquity, empowering citizens, interoperability of services/systems, green systems, and open data. Whatever is the explored concept, all of them try to reach a single goal, namely, turn the city into a better place to live through the use of Information Technology. In this context, more specifically, interoperable environments play an important role as it provides means to connect different services by creating new systems that are able to provide a bigger variety of information to its users. In this matter, a new range of challenge rises; among those challenges, information security is one of the most important to be discussed. This paper presents a group of security issues that raises a dangerous concern in Smart City solutions, discusses how identity standards, such as OpenID, SAML and OAuth, impact on those issues.

Pages: 7 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8394

ISBN: 978-1-61208-449-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015