Cybersecurity Challenges and Countermeasures in Smart Cities for Sustainable Environment Development: A Comprehensive Analysis of Threats and Resilience Strategies

Abstract

The smart city aims to raise the standard of living for its citizens. Intelligent transportation, automated traffic control, computerized medical services, and health monitoring systems are basic requirements of a smart city. Smart cities have greatly multiplied, mostly in developing countries. Urban resilience is garnering greater attention and interest concurrently due to growing worry over significant concerns such as climate change, natural catastrophes, and other hazards. Despite the emphasis on enhancing urban resilience, the majority of study has been on defining urban resilience rather than how to put policies that would support urban resilience into practice. A growing number of cities around the world have begun to develop smart plans to address these problems, promote citizen well-being, drive economic growth, and effectively and sustainably administer modern cities. The application can be installed on a smartphone and the application uses the resources of a smartphone like WiFi, sensors, and Internet which decreases the cost of the application but increases the chances of the user's personal information being stolen. Since the smartphone holds a lot of private information about the user, including social networking and bank account details, hackers may be able to utilize the personal facts to harm the user.