The backbone of any connected security system — and especially a super-connected smart building — is the network, which is increasingly vulnerable the more things you connect to it. That is why the cyber-stance, or cyber-hygiene, a facility puts in place is absolutely critical to keeping things running smoothly and helping protect against damaging hacking attacks.
A recent report by ExtraHop found that some cyber leaders may be a little too confident in their organization’s cybersecurity posture. In the report, 88 percent of cyber leaders expressed confidence in their organization’s risk management abilities, yet the report also found that many organizations are unprepared to mitigate risk — largely due to poor cyber hygiene and inadequate budgets.
Poor cyber hygiene is particularly problematic of cyber risk in the agricultural, educational and government sectors, with 51 percent of respondents reporting that more than half of their organization’s cyber events are related to poor cyber hygiene, and one out of two organizations deploying one or more insecure network protocols that malicious actors have been known to leverage.
Equally concerning, A report by…
