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11. Block Hacker Surveillance of Your Buildings

Luis Ayala

(1)Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA

So far, I’ve discussed the ability of an adversary to cause physical damage to your facilities, but there is another aspect to their activities that needs attention. The fact is that hackers are monitoring your company activities using your building control system and other building-related systems that your IT staff and security staff are probably completely unaware even exist.

Historically, IT staff has kept away from the building controls network, and for very good reasons. First of all, they don’t know diddly about the building equipment being monitored. ...

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