Increasingly sophisticated municipal technologies introduce a host of risks that must be addressed.
As cities aggressively adopt “smart” technology — especially in the very public-facing transportation and safety arenas — municipal auditors will increasingly find themselves facing a new version of a familiar risk: cybersecurity. The underpinning of Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectedness that makes smart tech so smart is also its Achilles’ heel, offering hackers access, on a vast scale, to all kinds of complicated technologies — and the people they affect. And countering that risk may require new internal audit skills and tools.
