Cyber Attack
“Cybersecurity is a Shared Responsibility. We are All in this Together”
September 2nd, 2021A Future of Smart Building Cyberattacks in the Pipeline?
August 5th, 2021
Does Technology Make Buildings More or Less Resilient?
Resilience is the ability to overcome future challenges, both the expected and the unexpected. The term has been used increasingly in the buildings industry in recent years, alongside other terms such as sustainability and continuity. However, while sustainability and continuity are focused on survival, the true goal of resilience is to thrive despite challenges. Resilience […]
How Long Can We Blame Our Cybersecurity Failures On Rapid Proliferation of Technology?
We know by now that connected devices create a cybersecurity risk, yet we continue to connect devices. Big IoT hacks are widely reported, but we still demand smart buildings. Survey after survey shows that executives see cyberattacks as the biggest issue for the IoT, yet the same surveys show that the vast majority of companies […]
The Critical Factors That Will Deliver Physical Security Growth to 2025
In this article we discuss the 6 most important factors that will shape the future of the Physical Security industry through the next 5 years, which will require fundamental changes to business strategies. 1. The gap between the major suppliers of Video Surveillance equipment and the many hundreds of smaller suppliers gets wider every year […]
Verkada Hack “Exposes How Broadly We’re Being Surveilled & How Little is Put into Securing IoT”
A damning IoT security breach occurred this week as a hacker group gained access to video surveillance feeds, as well as company and customer data, of Silicon Valley security startup Verkada. The hackers gained access to over 150,000 cameras, including those in Tesla factories and warehouses, Cloudflare offices, Equinox gyms, hospitals, jails, schools, police stations, […]
The Vulnerability of Things & the Need for Lightweight Encryption in Smart Devices
The Internet of Things (IoT) in smart buildings, homes, and cities has triggered a digital revolution for the built environment. Billions of sensors and devices now transmit real-world data to cloud computing systems in order to help us understand the physical world in quantifiable digital terms. IoT data is often sensitive in terms of privacy […]
Phishing for Digital Empathy in a Zero Trust Cybersecurity Landscape
While the COVID-19 pandemic presents very real biological threats, the necessary social distancing policies have forced us to rely on a digital world that presents very real cyber threats. From an almost overnight shift to mass remote working, to a sharp rise in opportunistic cyberattacks, the crisis has tested every company’s cyber resilience. Cybersecurity systems […]
The Pandemic Needs a Vaccine, but the Infodemic Needs a Cybersecurity Revolution
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) during a gathering of foreign policy and security experts in Munich, Germany, in February, referring to fake news and opportunistic cyber attacks that “spreads faster and more easily than this virus,” he said. COVID-19, […]
From COVID19 to Ripple20 – A New IoT Cybersecurity Threat is Unveiled
As the COVID-19 pandemic passes more somber fatality milestones and our global society strive to return to some kind of normality, other issues like cybersecurity persist and increase. Last week, JSOF Research Lab uncovered a series of 19 zero-day vulnerabilities that could impact hundreds of millions of IoT devices. Collectively named “Ripple20,” the vulnerabilities were […]