Cyber Security
Solar Power Beats DOE Targets By 3 Years Underlining Its Value to Buildings
September 21st, 2017Equifax Hack Serves as Another Reminder that our Smart Buildings are Vulnerable
September 19th, 2017
Video Camera Business Loses Focus, Caught in the Headlights of Oncoming Chinese Manufacturers
Chinese Manufactures will continue to dominate the mainstream video camera market unless western manufactures adopt viable strategies to meet the new challenges driven by customer needs. Just about every set of statistics that has been published in the last twelve months regarding the world market for video surveillance equipment shows that the world’s two major […]
Is the Light Industry Still in the Dark When it Comes to Cyber Security?
This May, the global news headlines announced that a penetrating chain of attacks had taken place. Over the course of just 24 hours, 45,000 cyber-attacks had taken place in 99 countries around the world. The ‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack hit multiple organisations hard, created over 200,000 victims, and even left vital operations having to be cancelled […]
Security By Design – The Only Way To Effectively Protect Smart Buildings From Cyber Attack
Cyber attacks are an unfortunate reality of our connected world, and as more of our smart buildings get online, it seems there is no stopping the increased threat to them from hackers. While we may be helpless in reducing the wide variety of attempts to bring down or hold to ransom our connected assets, we […]
“The Internet of Things Requires An Entirely Different Approach To Security”
There seems little doubt about it anymore; the Internet of Things (IoT) age is upon us. Predictions for IoT growth and adoption, from the world’s biggest economic analysis agencies, range from huge to incredibly huge. Yet we are still to agree on a suitable formula to make the IoT secure from cyber attack, and if […]
Do Chinese Suppliers Set the Competitive Landscape for Video Cameras?
There are two main criteria which set the competitive landscape in the physical security business and they are scale/economics & technology/performance. In the first category the top two Chinese manufacturers of Video Surveillance equipment (Hikvision and Dahua) have during the last few years taken control here. They now dwarf their western competitors and have dramatically […]
Giving Greater Significance To The Threat Of Cyber Attacks On Smart Buildings
“Technology is changing the most fundamental truth about commercial real estate, that value is based solely on location,” according to Deloitte. Offering a workplace in a good location is no longer enough to attract the top tenants, nor is it enough for those organizations to entice the best talent. Leading companies and their workers are […]
Physical Security Business Needs Open Systems & Structural Changes to Deliver Full Potential of Integration
Integration between all three branches of the Physical Security business is now one of the main drivers for growth in demand from building operators and owners. However its full potential is being limited by a lack of initiative from manufacturers and system installers to adopt open communication standards that customers need if they are not […]
Latest Cyber Attack Underlines The Need For Better Protection
It hasn’t even been seven weeks since WannaCry, “the biggest ransomware attack of it’s kind,” and here we are again. On Tuesday began a new ransomware attack quickly, and perhaps premtively, dubbed ‘Petya’ – which is currently and quickly spreading across the world, crippling computer systems and demanding victims pay-up to regain access to their […]
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