Smart cities will have intelligent connected vehicles and other connected automotive technology for easier data transfer and communication dynamically between vehicles, public bodies, and traffic authorities. Despite the promise of this premise, one can always imagine such vehicles to be vulnerable to instances of remote hacking or other kinds of data security attacks.
The attack surface, also known by some as the attack surface area, is the digital part of an organisation that is the most vulnerable to hacking and other hostile cyber threats. If a cybercriminal somehow gets access into the data network or database of an organisation, they can increase this surface area.
Organisations value the protection and privacy of their data and control who has access to it. They certainly do not want their sensitive information to be privy to cyber criminals or their competition. If an organisation's security system is weak, it makes the hacker's task to extract all confidential information very easy.
Zero Trust is a cyber security model which considers any request, whether it is within or outside an organisation, as a potential breach. It requires every request to be verified, encrypted and authorised before granting access. The execution of this program combines advanced technologies such as identity protection, risk-based multi-factor authentication, and robust cloud technology to verify or authenticate a system or user and then considers access as per the request.