Ransomware and Intrusion Detection Last July 2021, the Italian Region Lazio, was hit by a ransomware attack, disabling its IT systems, including the COVID-19 vaccination portal: it encrypted almost every file in the data centre. A month ago, Italian railways operator Trenitalia (part of Ferrovie dello Stato group) main services were shouted down after its [...]

Normative Convergence of “Cybersecurity and Multimodal Public Transport Systems” Cybersecurity standardization applied to urban transport systems: how to bring together the world of urban transport and that of cybersecurity. Because of their social and environmental vocation, multimodal transport systems, as an essential component of the 'smart city', attract many functional and technical specificities. They are [...]

Standards for trusted cybersecurity and privacy in urban multimodal transport systems Smart multimodal transport systems provide benefits for the different operators and passengers such as enhanced efficiency and optimization of operations, better alignment between the different systems resulting in lower costs and improved passengers' satisfaction. But with more smartness there is the increased risk of [...]

Assurance security Providing security can be achieved in many ways. It can take the form of company processes, security management, infrastructure components, users’ education, etc. Cybersecurity’s state of the art identifies many threats and almost as many potential solutions to counter them. However, one major difficulty is that it is often unclear how to know [...]

CitySCAPE City-level Cyber-Secure Multimodal Transport Ecosystem Securing passengers data with the Kaspersky Mobile Security SDK The passengers of the multimodal local public transport in Genoa will soon be equipped with a new version of the AMT mobile application they use to handle their tickets and subscriptions or to consult routes, timetables, and waiting times. The [...]

Mobile technologies, Users and Cyber-security for infomobility services on multimodal transport systems Context Companies in the transportation industry serve a critical function for contemporary societies all over the world and their services have a key role in reaching sustainability goals. Public transports firms are in the path to embrace increasing digital transformation to improve efficiencies [...]

Introduction of a Novel Risk based Approach in the Multimodal Transport Cyber Security Ecosystem Context The security of assets, services and people is threatened every day by intentional and unintentional events that can undermine their stability and integrity. Cyber threats are among these events and, in an increasingly digital and connected world, cybersecurity becomes an [...]

Collaboration in incident response   There is one novel cybersecurity aspect of the envisioned CitySCAPE project that warrants special mention: the planned collaborative threat investigation platform, which aims to greatly speed up the process of incident discovery, handling, forensic and disabling of attackers' infrastructure. The current process of incident handling has several extra steps that [...]

Introduction of a Novel Risk based Approach in the Multimodal Transport Cyber Security Ecosystem By European Dynamics Background The world is rapidly evolving and urbanizing. As populations increase and technology brings new opportunities, multimodal transportation has become the dominant option for a smart city beneficial to improve and facilitate people’s daily lives. While multimodal transport [...]

How to improve the protection of multimodal transport against cyber-attacks? Over the last decade the multimodal transport has faced cyber incidents increasing the fears of citizens. Here are such examples: June 6, 2016 - The Washington Post reported that Dallas road signs were hacked and messages about Donald Trump and Harambe the gorilla were posted. [...]