Cyber Security
IBM Hackers Highlight Cyber Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Buildings
February 17th, 2016Shouldn’t We All Have Smart Homes By Now?
February 4th, 2016
Nest Thermostat Bug highlights the Vulnerability of Smart Homes
Last Decemeber, Nest, the smart homes firm owned by Google, was hit with a software glitch that has seen a number of devices turning themselves off and leaving owners in the cold. A botched software update caused the thermostat’s batteries to drain or repeatedly switch on and off which meant it failed to heat homes […]
PSIM Software Evolving into Situation Management and Command & Control Platforms
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. PSIM, or Physical Security Information Management, is a category of software, created by middleware developers, which is designed to integrate multiple unconnected security applications and devices and control them through one comprehensive user interface. These solutions aimed at large facilities have been deployed to […]
BOPS Enables Widespread use of Biometrics for Access Control
Passwords are old fashioned, impractical and insecure. Enter increasingly pervasive biometric technology and the promise to guarantee the identity of who is at the other end of a mobile device or reader, enabled by BOPS (Biometrics Open Protocol Standard). This has lead to biometrics industry leaders, such as Hector Hoyos, CEO of Hoyos Labs, predicting […]
Smart Buildings and Businesses Vulnerable to “Shadow IT”
The workplace is changing in our ever more connected world. Mobile devices, the cloud, bring your own device (BYOD) and the Internet of things (IoT) have introduced a whole new style of computing, and are forcing businesses big and small to rethink what security needs to look like in order to protect the growing numbers […]
Why the Internet of Things Changes Physical Security
This article, written by Per Bjorkdahl, Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee explains why the security industry needs to take special care in ensuring that the introduction of IoT into the physical security industry meets the highest security standards. To do this and ensure that the most appropriate communication standard is adopted requires ONVIF to […]
“Who’s Responsible when a Smart City Crashes?”
When the question “Who’s responsible when a smart city crashes?” was posed by Futurologist Dr. Simon Moores during his keynote session at IFSEC last month, it sparked an intriguing and still un-concluded debate. It not only challenged topics of ownership and responsibility, but also highlighted smart city vulnerabilities and our growing dependency on connected technology. […]
The Internet of Things and its Impact on Commercial & Industrial Buildings
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry regards commercial and industrial buildings as the third most important market for its technology and products. Not surprising… given that the world market for all types of Building Automation Systems (BAS) for these buildings was $120Bn in 2014 and will grow at around a CAGR of 9% to reach […]
Without Privacy Controls, we will not see the Full Potential of the Internet of Things
We are heading towards a world where everything is connected, not only online, but also in the physical world of wireless and wearable devices linking cars, with offices, with watches, ovens and street lights. When we add to that the tracking of activities from our smart homes by way of automated thermostats, light fixtures, smart […]
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