The ‘Brave New World’ of Cybersecurity (And the Security Integrator’s Role in It.)
Integrators are aware that anything they put on the network could be vulnerable to cyberattack, but many are stymied by where to start to create a plan to fix it. Experts from inside and outside the industry know how.
Cybersecurity concerns are everywhere. From Target to Home Depot, to the Social Security Administration, to the recent [possibly foreign] hacks of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, it is almost impossible to turn on the news or read a paper without seeing something about cybersecurity.
The documentary “Zero Days,” released in July (and highly recommended as a must-watch by several experts) demonstrated with frightening clarity the speed and breadth of damage cyberattacks can have — thanks to the burgeoning Internet of Things we are all hearing about and striving toward today. But for the security integrator, who is down in the trenches of everyday problems and solutions for making things talk together, much of this discussion on cyber has remained on a higher level and still seemed like a “not us” problem. Not anymore.