Cybersecurity is a massive issue for smart buildings. Cybercriminals are relentless but we must accept them as a reality of connectivity. What we shouldn’t accept is that the IoT sector helps them by churning out insecure products that are picked up by unsuspecting owners and operators who may have limited IT and cybersecurity knowledge. Facilities management must get IT-smart as their buildings get IoT-smart if we are to avoid feeding the growing cyber threat with more cyber-insecure buildings. This is a new world for buildings. The traditional light bulb never had to share sensitive information with boilers or door locks, each operational technology (OT) just did its job independently and there was no talk of cybersecurity. Now smart buildings strive to interconnect every system through centralized building automation and control systems (BACS) to share data for increasingly powerful analytics to drive better energy efficiency, productivity, and occupant wellbeing simultaneously. BACS hold the key to every […]