The Council of Global City CIOs includes city IT managers from San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City, The Hague, Dubai, Boston and Seattle. The idea is to share best practices and encourage a variety of projects, such as municipal Wi-Fi, movement analytics, waste management and water quality management. Smart city initiatives have been around for nearly a decade. With these initiatives comes great opportunity for attackers to exploit the connectivity and availability of data for potential sabotage.”]