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Seoul building cyber attack-resistant traffic and transport control system

According to a report in the Korea Times today, Seoul city officials are city urgently undertaking the development and of an integrated traffic information and operation system resistant to cyber terrorism to guard the city's traffic network from outside attacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it plans to build an advanced transport management system that monitors the total traffic network around the clock by the end of this year, as part of efforts to vigilantly respond against any security threat.
April 17, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
According to a report in the 4965 Korea Times today, Seoul city officials are city urgently undertaking the development and of an integrated traffic information and operation system resistant to cyber terrorism to guard the city's traffic network from outside attacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it plans to build an advanced transport management system that monitors the total traffic network around the clock by the end of this year, as part of efforts to vigilantly respond against any security threat.

Seoul has operated separate traffic information systems for public transportation and live road traffic in its metropolitan area, which experts warn are fragile to the growing threat of cyber attacks. In March, about 30 government and business Web sites came under the massive cyber attacks, which were suspected to have been carried out by North Korean hackers.

The new traffic and transport control system will allow security officials to promptly detect and analyse hacking attempts so that they can easily find any suspicious signs and figure out the cause of Web attacks, Korea Times quotes city officials as saying.

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