Author(s)

Azizi Majid

Independent Researcher, Wuhan, China.

Due to the long-term goal of bringing about significant changes in the quality of services supplied to smart city residents and urban environments and life, the development and deployment of ICT in city infrastructure has spurred interest in smart cities. Applications for smart cities can gather private data in a variety of fields. Different sectors such as healthcare, smart parking, transportation, traffic systems, public safety, smart agriculture, and other sectors can control real-life physical objects and deliver intelligent and smart information to citizens who are the users. However, this smart ICT integration brings about numerous concerns and issues with security and privacy for both smart city citizens and the environments they are built in. The main uses of smart cities are examined in this journal article, along with the security needs for IoT systems supporting them and the identified important privacy and security issues in the smart city application architecture. Following the identification of several security flaws and privacy concerns in the context of smart cities, it then highlights some security and privacy solutions for developing secure smart city systems and presents research opportunities that still need to be considered for performance improvement in the future.

Smart Cities, Internet of Things (IoT), Security, Privacy, Attacks, Threats

Majid, A. (2023) Security and Privacy Concerns over IoT Devices Attacks in Smart Cities (2022). Journal of Computer and Communications, 11, 26-42. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2023.111003.