IoT & Smart Cities

SOC for Smart Cities

Cities and utilities are an increasingly interesting target for cybercrime

City Challenges

SOC for IoT

Smart Cities extend the surface in the cyberspace through the IoT devices which are exposed to cyberattacks (if not today they will be tomorrow). The ability to prevent and manage cyberattacks is paramount to minimize the impact and maintain the stakeholders’ confidence about smart devices and protect its residents. At Paradox Engineering, security consists of people, processes, technologies, governance and compliance controls, to effectively identify, detect, and possibly mitigate threats, ideally before any damage occurs.

City Needs

PROTECTION

IoT devices will represent the largest surface of digital devices, and this increments the attention and
probability to be a target for cybercriminals in the next years.

AWARENESS

Being aware of the threats is vital to understand where to invest in a defense program. Monitoring and analyzing threats are paramount to security.

REPUTATION

City reputation increases the trust of citizens in the administration. This trust must be maintained with a
high level of service without interruption.

COMMITMENT

Laws like GDPR do not report the technical requirements, but in case of incidents and/or audit programs it is important to demonstrate a certain degree of security commitment.​

RELIABILITY

Ensure adequate protection for data and services to maintain trustworthy relations with stakeholders and
investors.

READYNESS

Be prepared by early identification and real-time response to cyber threats or incidents, thus reducing the impact of a possible data breach.

PROTECTION

IoT devices will represent the largest surface of digital devices, and this increments the attention and
probability to be a target for cybercriminals in the next years.

REPUTATION

City reputation increases the trust of citizens in the administration. This trust must be maintained with a
high level of service without interruption.

RELIABILITY

Ensure adequate protection for data and services to maintain trustworthy relations with stakeholders and
investors.

AWARENESS

Being aware of the threats is vital to understand where to invest in a defense program. Monitoring and analyzing threats are paramount to security.

READYNESS

Be prepared by early identification and real-time response to cyber threats or incidents, thus reducing the impact of a possible data breach.

COMMITMENT

Laws like GDPR do not report the technical requirements, but in case of incidents and/or audit programs it is important to demonstrate a certain degree of security commitment.​

At Paradox Engineering, we look at cybersecurity as a combination of:

Technology

We endorse open, standard-based Internet of Things technologies and matured a security-by-design approach, which means having security built into our solutions from their very inception. In our experience, security can’t be added at the final stage of development or demanded just as reaction after delivery. We think about infrastructure and application protection from the beginning and provide cities with intrinsically secure network systems.

People

As 90% of security breaches come out of human inadvertent errors, we promote and deliver cyber- awareness programs to educate people, share best practices and how to behave in case of anomalous events. People are the first line of defense against cyberthreats.

Processes

Security must be managed as a cyclic process that starts from understanding the assets and the associated risks, applying measures to reduce vulnerabilities, prevent the known threats, early detect and respond to unknown threats.

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Cybersecurity Services for Smart Cities

We have a dedicated team for our smart city customers with proven expertise and innovative tools to effectively monitor, support and respond to cyber threats and incidents.

We use a framework of services to support cities and utilities in improving the cybersecurity levels of their IoT networks, devices, and applications.

Our SOC provides an incident detection service by observing technical events in networks and systems and it can also support smart city’s customers in incident response and handling. 

We collaborate with other SOCs or Computer Emergency Response Teams to create a wider cybersecurity collaboration network.

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Awareness

We spread cybersecurity knowledge and increase the customer’s preparedness by offering educational programs, trainings, and customized campaigns.

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Security Assessments

We test our customer’s IoT networks, systems and applications and make recommendations to prevent attacks.

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Monitoring

We watch the status of our customers’ operating infrastructure, send immediate alerts in case of abnormalities or suspicious behaviors, detect and quickly tackle possible vulnerabilities.

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