## 3 Recommendations  
In the face of rising urbanization, city planners are turning to technology to alleviate many challenges in contemporary cities. Smart cities result from deeper technological integration into new or existing urban environments. Building a smart city aims to improve people's quality of life by leveraging technology to improve service efficiency and meet residents' needs. A smart city is a vision for urban development that aims to secure and integrate multiple information and communication technology solutions to manage a city's assets. The smart city is concerned with how the city's \"organism\" functions as an integrated whole and survives in harsh environments. A city's energy, water, transportation, public health and safety, and other aspects as critical infrastructure run smoothly while providing a clean, economic, and safe environment to live and work in [123]. In practice, these transformational impacts will result from the combination of three components of technology: low-cost logic controllers, millions of sensors attached to devices scattered around a city, and a network that links all of these nodes and allows real-time communication. Smart cities rely on networks to ensure the supply and delivery of functions. Such network connections will allow for more effective and efficient delivery of urban services. Additionally, these networks aim to present conservation opportunities, improve efficiencies, and, most importantly, enable coordination among city officials, infrastructure operators, public safety officials, and the general public [146]. Balancing the promise of smart cities against the potential for cyber risks--and properly managing the related risks--will be key to fulfilling the smart city potential. To begin, cities should involve all stakeholders and entities in the greater ecosystem. The following are the next recommended actions that cities should consider:  
1. Syncing smart city and cyber strategy. Cities should develop a detailed cybersecurity strategy consistent with their overall smart city strategy and can mitigate issues coming from the continuous convergence, interoperability, and interconnection of city technologies. Additionally, they should consider undertaking a thorough impact assessment of their data, procedures, and cyber assets to identify, assess, and reduce the risks associated with technical processes, policies, and solutions. Cities may build a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy with an integrated perspective of the risks and awareness of the interdependencies of important assets. 2. Formalizing cyber and data governance. Cities must codify their approach to data governance, assets, infrastructure, and other technological components. Each important part of the smart city ecosystem should have its responsibilities and tasks, which should be defined in a comprehensive governance model. Multiple entities must collaborate to apply an ecosystem approach to cyber challenges, with a robust governance model serving as the foundation. Cities can collaborate with other cities, state agencies, academics, and enterprises to exchange threat information, capabilities, and contracts to bolster cyber defenses. Furthermore, data management, which includes rigorous data sharing and privacy policies, data analytics skills, and monetization models that allow the sourcing and use of \"city data,\" is an important part of this governance. Policies, regulations, and technology must be constantly coordinated to strike the proper balance of protection, privacy, transparency, and utility. The city's comprehensive cyber strategy requires the maturation of the government, rules, and processes. 3. Build strategic partnerships to grow cyber capabilities [147]. Because the cyber skills gap is not going away anytime soon, cities must be inventive and proactive in filling it in their communities. Smart cities necessitate the development of new skills and competencies across all ecosystem tiers.