The ultimate vision of mass hyper-connected smart buildings hosting hundreds of interconnected devices will not be possible without addressing a wide range of building specific cybersecurity issues. Each system, device, router, server, and gateway, including their multiple versions and iterations, introduces its own cyber security risk to the building. And, without strict segmentation, unauthorized access to any one of this broad range of vulnerabilities could expose the entire network. Buildings were not designed to evolve at this speed and new smart buildings will have to learn about cyber security quickly. “The smart buildings industry remains largely behind the curve in its understanding of the increasingly large attack surface that their systems represent. Facilities management teams generally still often lack the IT skills required to manage cyber security, poorly secured IoT devices still flood the market at attractive prices, and technology continues to increase in buildings despite cyber security concerns,” explains our latest research. “A holistic, multi-disciplinary defence […]