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.