WHEN INTELLIGENCE COMES INTO PLAY,
CYBER SECURITY IS IN DANGER OF BEING FORGOTTEN text: JUKKA VIITASAARI Partner, Cyberwatch
Finland
Even though the current viral epidemic has stopped the movement of the world; people, goods, information and capital will continue to have a need and a tendency to move. In the face of motion induced blindness, we can easily be amazed by the new, great innovations, but we do not remember to make them safe for use. However, it would be worthwhile.
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mart mobility is one of the most profitable input-output targets for cybercriminals. However, it is not a stand-alone factor, but is closely linked to larger systems, such as the smart city, or the whole digital lifestyle. In its simplest form, cybercrime does not have to be more complicated than rudimentary email phishing to cause huge financial losses. In June 2019, an employee of the Riviera Beach police station in Florida opened an email attachment. The attachment unleashed a blackmail program that locked up the public transport ticketing system, the city payroll system, all municipal email servers, and even the emergency telephone system. The city council decided to pay for the $ 600,000 Bitcoin ransom demanded by the hacker for the decryption key to regain control of all the data in the systems and of course the system itself.
INTELLIGENCE INVOLVED IN ALL MOVEMENT
The size of the mobility market is globally estimated at approximately 6500 billion euro, or 6.5 trillion euro, in Finland alone around 30 billion euro. Mobility is undergoing 50 | CYBERWATCH FINLAND
a major breakthrough, with the most prominent manifestations in everyday life being the Mobility as a Service (MaaS), lift sharing, taxi market redistribution, an autonomous automotive, telematics, and digitalisation of traffic control systems. However, smart mobility is not present only on land, but also on waterways and airways. Freight and passenger ships sailing the world’s seas are full of data-driven solutions, and all air traffic and their harbour and field operations increasingly incorporate automated and autonomous functions. The whole paradigm of movement will change in the form of autonomous vehicles, new transport solutions, electrification of mobility, new services and the exit from the fossil economy. Mobility is an integral part of present day life and is particularly deeply connected to the services and activities of an urban smart city. These include seamless transport chains for people, services and data, data-driven mobility services and traffic control systems, fuel-efficient solutions, and optimised logistics solutions for ports, airports, and
