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Establishing A Cyber Safety Standard of Care for the Built Environment
A select gathering of academia, professional organizations, infrastructure owners, and the Nation’s leading companies providing engineering and cybersecurity services committed to protecting human safety in an automated society.
Emerging Global Need for a Cyber Safety Standard of Care
The rapid adoption of connected technologies across facilities and infrastructure is enhancing operational efficiency, user experience, sustainability, and security—spanning homes, buildings, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer devices.
As information technology (IT) converges with operational technology (OT) to form cyber-physical systems (CPS), these integrated environments offer powerful new efficiencies and productivity.
However, they also introduce novel risks and vulnerabilities, such as the overreliance of unsecured operational automation, which provides bad actors new disruption vectors with more exploitation pathways directly threatening public health, safety, and essential services.
Recent cyberattacks targeting our Nation’s critical infrastructure sectors – water systems, power grids, ports, pipelines, and transportation systems – have prompted multiple federal safety warnings.
These alerts underscore the urgent need for private sector owners and operators to invest in robust cyber protections that safeguard the public interest.
Eight principles for a cyber-safe built environment.
Establishing cyber safety standards for engineering, construction, and facility management professionals.
Embed in practice
The A/E/C industry across all infrastructure sectors incorporates cyber safety into its body of knowledge, including minimum requirements and specifications for systems that incorporate digital controls.
The Imperative for the Connected Built Environment
As cyber and physical systems converge, a critical gap in engineering responsibility is putting real-world infrastructure—and public safety—at risk. In The Imperative for the Connected Built Environment, Lucian Niemeyer and Dr. Georgianna Shea outline why cyber safety must be recognized as a core engineering function.
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