The aim of Smart Cities is to dynamically optimize cities to offer a better life quality to citizens through the application of information and communication technology (ICT). The areas where cities can become smarter are vast: it is an evolution of “Connected Cities” with a scale data being exchanged getting in a widespread manner. Increasing data exchange and controlling multiple services and assets lead to a higher level of automation in cities. As several critical services are linked to each other, the need for cybersecurity increases to protect the data exchange, privacy, and citizens’ health and safety. However, there are currently no harmonized guidelines or standards for modeling these.

Smart public transport (ATT) systems are important elements in Smart Cities. The Smart Public Transport operator manages local public transport by implementing ICT to improve its service levels and efficiency of the transport system. ATT operators also exchange data with each other to provide a better integrated service.

Safe water supply and effective wastewater management are vital elements of modern economies. To better manage the growing demand, water authorities around the world are investing heavily in automation and digitalization for water treatment, wastewater management, desalination, storage and distribution.

Increased connectivity within the water sector has led to an increase in cybersecurity and OT vulnerabilities. The operations in this sector require real-time visibility to ensure that there are no cybersecurity threats or process faults with a zero-interruption policy, and a variety of potential impacts ranging from overflowing dams to water pollution, ultimate system failures to loss of human life.

In 2016, hackers breached a regional US water company by taking control of hundreds of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that manage the flow of water treatment chemicals and endangered thousands of lives. This incident led to the US Water Infrastructure Act 2018, which, among others, highlighted the inherent vulnerability of critical water infrastructure worldwide.

Therefore, maintaining real-time situational awareness and operational reliability and the ability to independently detect any operational anomalies are extremely important. Teknoser Cyber ​​Security solutions provides operators a chance to visualize the infrastructure in real-time with a most unique, and close to real-life situation and to intervene in cyber incidents in critical infrastructures to protect critical assets and the communities they serve.