Improved building system technology is making today’s smart buildings safer, more energy efficient, and more attractive to tenants. But ESD, now Stantec Studio Leader and Senior Security Consultant Coleman Wolf says building automated system (BAS) improvements could come with new vulnerabilities. (Read more about intelligent building security.)
If the Internet of Things suffers a security failure, the impact could be devastating. What operations will receive priority, and what are the best ways to prevent such a scenario from occurring in the first place?
ASIS recently spotlighted the importance of security for the Internet of Things, and the work of Coleman Wolf was highlighted in many of the resources offered by the newsletter. ASIS linked to a number of Wolf’s presentations, as well as an article he prepared about a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack that afflicted the United States and parts of Europe in 2016.