Understanding IIoT Cybersecurity Issues

Applying cybersecurity principles to the built environment often focuses on securing user access to building automation systems, an obvious area of concern. Similar application can secure the interface that connects equipment to the internet to facilitate machine-to-machine communication-often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).(1) A cursory knowledge of this subject is important to give owners, engineers and technicians a user-level understanding of cybersecurity issues. After all, the development efforts mentioned in this column are being funded directly or indirectly by all of us. In a way, this means we are also funding cyber criminals.(2)