Securing IoT – Enabled Smart City Services – the Military Perspective

Abstract

The widespread adoption of Internet-of-Things (IoT) driven technologies in Smart Cities is raising significant cybersecurity issues. The military are well aware of the opportunities and challenges brought by large scale IoT adoption, not just in battlefield but also in urban environments, and are exploring how to exploit those assets for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Recovery (HADR), counter-terrorism, and mass protection scenarios. To this end, not only they created specific initiatives, such as the NATO IST-147 Research Task Group on Military Applications of the IoT, to investigate the problem, but are also developing innovative methodologies and tools that represent a paradigm shift with respect to currently proposed approaches