Evaluation of portable penetration testing on smart cities applications using Raspberry Pi III

Abstract

Smart Cities have been facing a lot of security breach issues, there are many risks that have high impacts on its sustainability. Penetration testing is an essential assessment and needs to be performed frequently for Smart Cities systems to maintain their safety and security. Due to the rapid growth of modern cities, there is an exigent need to identify the various security risks and threats that exists in these cities. This study proposes a practical and efficient solution to mitigate these risks by evaluating a smart solution in performing penetration testing on those smart cities via using a Raspberry Pi III-computer based smart device as an alternative method to perform penetration testing. Raspberry Pi III is a portable device which has a self-contained miniaturized computer that can be used to perform some tasks such as penetration and vulnerability assessments to identify and scan the networks by using some build-in pentesting tools. This research paper discussed the benefits of using such smart device in performing penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.