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Smart Building Cybersecurity is a Process, Not a Project or a Product
“The boundaries of your digital empire are limitless. What was once a finite and defendable space is now a boundless territory — a vast, sprawling footprint of devices, apps, appliances, servers, networks, clouds, and users,” says Bill Conner, president and CEO of cybersecurity solution provider SonicWall, on the changing landscape of cybersecurity in buildings. “For […]
Undetected Hacks of IoT Devices May be Straining our Power System & Strangling our Economy
“We’ve all seen the headlines: A major cyber attack on the US electric grid could cause over $1 trillion in economic impact,” says Yotam Gutman, VP Marketing at SecuriThings. “Nevertheless. to date, there have been no recorded cyber attacks on power facilities that have caused a major physical catastrophe or long blackout,” he points out. […]
It is All About Making Spaces Work – Cyber Security in the Smart Building Age.
The role of the architect will be to introduce some humanity into all this technology,” says the new chair of the Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF) working group for smart buildings, Norman Disney & Young (NDY) cyber security advisor Alan Mihalic. Mihalic is concerned that the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a disruptive […]
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 […]
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 […]
Futureproofing Smart Buildings & The Virtualization Of The Edge – Memoori Talks To IoTium
“Don’t ever question if you will be hacked. You will be hacked,” proclaims IoTium CEO, Ron Victor, during Memoori’s Webinar last week, before describing a test anyone can try. “Open up a server on AWS and just watch. Within two hours, 55,000 people will try and hack into that box for some reason, just because […]
Connected Physical Security Devices – The Trojan Horse for Cyber Attacks
Last year, we estimated that world expenditure on Physical Security products was $28Bn. Our latest report on Cyber Security shows that of some 10 building technology elements, physical security products were perceived as having the highest risk to cyber security threats. Causing the greatest level of concern here are video cameras, given the recent hacking […]