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Smart Cities

Cybersecurity for Connected Urban Infrastructure

Modern cities depend on interconnected transportation, utilities, public safety, buildings, and digital services. Dawon provides unified operational intelligence and risk context across these environments, helping city authorities protect essential services while continuing to adopt connected technologies.

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  • Transportation
  • Public buildings
  • Utilities
  • Connected infrastructure
The Smart City Security Challenge

Connected Services Create Shared Risk

Smart city infrastructure brings IT, OT, and IoT systems together across multiple departments, operators, and suppliers. This improves service delivery, but it also creates dependencies through which an incident in one system can affect other city operations.

  • Distribution substation busbars, disconnect switches and a transformer behind its fenceElectricity Distribution
  • Concrete civic building seen from the street belowPublic Buildings
  • Pipework, valves and gauges inside a utility plantWater and Wastewater
  • Imaging scanner bore and patient table in a hospital scanning roomHealthcare
  • Racked servers, a patch frame and network switches in a communications roomDigital Services
  • Fire engine standing in the arched apparatus bay of a city fire stationPublic Safety
  • Signalised city intersection with a traffic signal head hung over the carriagewayRoad and Traffic
  • Train passing an underground station platform beside the platform seatingPublic Transport
Shared across every domain

CITY NETWORK · SHARED SITES · COMMON SUPPLIERS · CONNECTED DEVICES

  • Direct operational dependency
  • One incident reaching services beyond the system it started in

Interconnected services create shared operational dependencies. Domains with no line between them are not independent, they are reached through a shared one.

  • Diverse Technology Environments

    Modern IoT devices operate alongside long lived traffic, utility, building, and public safety systems that were not originally designed for continuous connectivity.

  • Distributed Infrastructure

    City assets are spread across intersections, stations, public buildings, substations, pumping facilities, and other remote locations, making consistent monitoring difficult.

  • Multiple Operators and Suppliers

    Municipal departments, contractors, technology providers, and maintenance teams may all require access to connected systems, creating complex ownership and accountability.

  • Cascading Service Disruption

    An incident affecting traffic systems, emergency communications, building controls, or utilities can create consequences across multiple public services.

Unified Citywide Security

One Operational View Across Connected City Systems

Dawon brings asset, network, threat, access, risk, and compliance information together across distributed urban infrastructure.

  • Citywide Asset Intelligence

    Identify connected assets across departments, facilities, and operational domains. Maintain context for asset location, ownership, communications, and service dependencies.

  • Distributed Monitoring

    Use deployment options suited to central facilities, remote sites, constrained networks, and isolated environments. Multiple sensor types extend intelligence across different segments of the city's infrastructure.

  • Threat and Anomaly Detection

    Identify abnormal communications, unauthorized devices, unexpected system changes, and suspicious activity across OT, IoT, and connected operational systems.

  • Access and Segmentation Assurance

    Understand remote access pathways, third party connections, and communication flows between city systems. Validate whether approved security boundaries are operating as intended.

  • Risk and Compliance Management

    Prioritize findings according to their potential impact on public safety and service continuity. Connect technical evidence with applicable regulatory requirements and city security policies.

Operating workflow
01

Discover

02

Monitor

03

Detect

04

Prioritize

05

Respond

Findings are evaluated in the context of the city service they could affect.

Across the Urban Environment

Protection for Essential City Services

City Operations Centre

UNIFIED INVENTORY · RISK · COMPLIANCE EVIDENCE

City network
  • Road and Rail NetworkSIGNALS · ROADSIDE CABINETS · STATIONS
  • Emergency Services FacilityDISPATCH · RADIO · POWER AND COOLING
  • Public BuildingBAS · HVAC · ACCESS · SURVEILLANCE
  • Water or Energy UtilityPUMPING · DISTRIBUTION · FIELD RTU
Deployment Flexibility

CENTRAL FACILITIES · REMOTE SITES · CONSTRAINED NETWORKS · ISOLATED ENVIRONMENTS

  • Dawon sensor at the site
  • City network
  • Metro train arriving at an underground station platform

    Transportation Systems

    Protect traffic management platforms, signaling systems, public transportation networks, variable message signs, connected roadside infrastructure, and supporting communications.

  • Three fire engines standing in the arched apparatus bays of a city fire station

    Public Safety and Emergency Services

    Monitor emergency communication platforms, computer aided dispatch systems, public safety networks, and the power, cooling, and connected devices on which these services depend.

  • Rooftop of a downtown building carrying air handling units, condenser banks and ductwork

    Public Buildings and Facilities

    Secure building automation, HVAC, elevators, lighting, physical access controls, surveillance systems, and environmental sensors across public facilities.

  • Wastewater treatment works from above, showing circular clarifiers beside rectangular filter beds

    Urban Utilities

    Extend intelligence across water and wastewater facilities, electricity distribution, gas systems, pumping stations, connected controllers, and remote field assets.

Resilient City Operations

Protect Public Services as the City Evolves

  1. Service Continuity

    Identify risks before they develop into disruptions affecting transportation, utilities, public facilities, or emergency services.

  2. Public Safety

    Provide security teams with operational context to understand how a cyber incident could affect citizens and essential city functions.

  3. Scalable Oversight

    Maintain consistent intelligence and governance across geographically distributed systems without requiring an identical deployment at every location.

  4. Secure Digital Transformation

    Introduce connected services, smart sensors, automation, and new communications infrastructure on a stronger cybersecurity foundation.

  5. Regulatory Readiness

    Maintain current evidence for relevant requirements such as NIST guidance, ISA/IEC 62443, NIS2, CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals, and sector specific regulations where applicable.

Evidence is mapped against
  • NIST guidance
  • ISA/IEC 62443
  • NIS2
  • CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals
  • Sector specific regulations

Discuss Your Smart City Cyber Security Requirements

Explore how Dawon can support connected transportation, utilities, public safety, and building systems through a unified security approach.

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